[? Days. Hypothetical] Azure AD support.

[BradleyChatha]

I'm sure Andy would be very happy to have this, but I need to research more into it.

One of the hardest parts will be to integrate a user's information from AD into being a Contact on our side of things. If I can do that without issue (including auto updating the contact info from AD) then everything should just slot together by themselves.

Look into:

• Any GDPR issues I might run into, as I'll need to likely copy certain data into FarmMaster's database.
• Any Terms of Service type stuff I need to read up on.
• Using AD for logging in.
• Creating a special kind of Contact on our side that is generated and updated from AD, preventing any kind of modification on FarmMaster itself (you'll have to use AD to update things).
• If I can make this special Contact transparently, then most of the systems will just work (tm).
• Anonymising an account might need a bit of special casing, depending on how things end up working.
• This is a really, really long shot, but maybe also import and auto update groups from AD, in the far future when we have user/contact groups implemented.

If things seem plausable, then I might need to also bug Andy enough so I can get an account with sufficient permission/an API key/whatever it is I need to access AD's API.

[BradleyChatha]

After about 30 mins of research, the basics of logging in and out seem very do-able (I just need Andy to get me an API key).

Need to look more into the API though, so I can see how viable it is to get a user's name and email at the very least (since those two are required if we want to convert them over to a Contact object).