illinois / queue

A microservice queue for holding open office hours
University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
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Use tokens for primary auth instead of Shibboleth #182

Closed nwalters512 closed 5 years ago

nwalters512 commented 5 years ago

This replaces our use of Shibboleth as the primary authentication mechanism with JSON Web Tokens. We still use Shib to get a user's identity, but we create a JWT with that identity, store it in a cookie, and use it for future requests. The benefits of this are outlined in the high-level docs included in this PR.

Before this goes into production, we need to do the following:

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