[Hawkular-dev] Realm selection modal

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 All, Once the Keycloak integration PR gets merged, I intend to work on the registration feature and that will impact the "realm selection modal" (which was also discussed during the demo). So, I'd like to ask for ideas on how to implement that. What we know so far: - - At first, each user is a tenant. So, the registration page could ask for: * an "account name" (serves as the realm name) * email address (this user will serve as the realm's super user) * password As the output, it shows the user a set of credentials. For instance, a UUID which will serve as "password" for wildfly-sender or other remote agents. This registration feature would be in a separate WAR, available probably on the /registration context. When logging in, we need to tell Keycloak against which realm to authenticate this user. So, we have two main choices here: Option 1 * Allow the user to enter their account name on the first page. * We then redirect the user to the Keycloak login page, based on the account name he entered. If the realm name exists, Keycloak shows the login page. Otherwise, Keycloak complains. - - or - Option 2 * We store the user's email and realm on our side * Before sending the user to the login page, we ask for the user's email address. We then retrieve the realm for this address and send the user for authentication. I like the first option more, because: * We can change this logic on the future to pre-fill the user's account based on some other meta-data (sub-domain, for instance). * Option 2 opens a door to email harvesting (the first step in an attack reconnaissance phase): just enter a bunch of email address and wait for a login page to appear and you have a confirmation that this email exists. As this is a topic that was discussed on the demo, I'd like to hear your opinions/suggestions on how to implement this. - - Juca.