[Discuss] Centralized Login

[rushsteve1]

With the possible addition of a Wiki RCOS is now hosting a growing number of services for it's members. Keeping track of various logins and whos-who on each platform is a challenge and it might be a good idea to look into some more centralized authentication ideas.

Possible solutions are:

• RPI Central Authentication System (CAS)
  • Pros: Integrated into RPI, everyone has one
  • Cons: Difficult to integrate with, alumni and outside contributors cannot use
• OAuth client ie sign-in with GitHub/etc.
  • Pros: Fairly standardized, easy to do
  • Cons: Ties us into external platforms
• OAuth server ie sign-in with Observatory
  • Pros: part of our infrastructure, can be used going forward
  • More difficult to integrate, must be maintained by us

[rushsteve1]

There is also the fourth option of setting up a Gitea server as an Oauth provider since it has that feature. So it would be "Sign in with RCOS Git".

This would be a good solution to the sign-in issue as well as giving us a self-hosted git server. However storage space and external sign-ins are a consideration.