Re: [keycloak-dev] Remove kcinit and text-based authentication flows

kc-init was never released or documented. It never got beyond a prototype. As such it can be removed without any deprecation period. We never used it in OpenShift integration, and have no plans of doing so. On Wed, 18 Sep 2019, 16:10 Stefan Guilhen, <sguilhen(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Stian has sent an e-mail to kc-user about a week ago, no replies so far. > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 10:50 AM Hynek Mlnarik <hmlnarik(a)redhat.com&gt; > wrote: > >> +1 from dev perspective. I believe it is worth checking with >> keycloak-user >> as well. >> >> I guess deprecation period would be needed. IIRC, this was added with >> OSIN >> replacement in mind [1]. Is this plan obsoleted? >> >> [1] >> https://github.com/keycloak/openshift-integration/blob/master/README.md >> >> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 2:30 PM Marek Posolda <mposolda(a)redhat.com&gt; >> wrote: >> >> > +1 >> > >> > Do we have a chance to do it now or is some "deprecation period" >> needed? >> > It may help to save some work with refactoring of authentication flows, >> > which will be required for multi-token and step-up authentication >> support. >> > >> > Marek >> > >> > On 06. 09. 19 11:54, Bruno Oliveira wrote: >> > > +1 >> > > >> > > On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 6:48 AM Stian Thorgersen <sthorger(a)redhat.com >> > >> > wrote: >> > >> kcinit and it's associated text-based authentication flows adds >> quite a >> > bit >> > >> of complexity. It was never fully completed and we don't have >> capacity >> > to >> > >> complete it. >> > >> >> > >> Text-based authentication flows are also not really all that useful. >> > There >> > >> are other better approaches to authenticate devices without a web >> > browser, >> > >> and when there is a web browser that should be used rather than cli. >> > >> >> > >> I propose we remove both kcinit as well as the text-based >> authentication >> > >> flows. We also need to revert KeycloakInstalled to how it was prior >> to >> > this >> > >> was added as it is currently fairly broken. >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> > >> keycloak-dev mailing list >> > >> keycloak-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> > >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/keycloak-dev >> > > >> > > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > keycloak-dev mailing list >> > keycloak-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/keycloak-dev >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> keycloak-dev mailing list >> keycloak-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/keycloak-dev >> > > > -- > > Stefan Guilhen > > Principal Software Engineer > > Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com/> > > sguilhen(a)redhat.com IM: sguilhen > @RedHat <https://twitter.com/redhat> Red Hat > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/red-hat> Red Hat > <https://www.facebook.com/RedHatInc> > <https://www.redhat.com/> >