[aerogear-dev] Unified Push Server user management questions

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Hylke Bons <hbons at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It seems that most of us are happy with the wireframes for the Unified
> Push Server admin UI. I've used the feedback to make a few small
> changes:
>
> https://github.com/hbons/aerogear-design/blob/master/aerogear_unified_push_server_admin_ui.png


Nice!


>
>
> The next step is to look at the the missing features like the user
> management and authentication. It would be good to have a discussion
> about this, and I have some questions too.
>
> If I understand things correctly, the Push Server can run "standalone"
> or as a component in JBoss AS (or something else).


UnifiedPush-Server is deployed as a WAR (standalone)



> So we'll need a UI
> for user management when we run standalone, but one that can be disabled
> and be plugged in by different existing auth systems that are running on
> the server or somewhere else.
>

there is NO connection to LDAP etc planed (for now)



>
> Some questions that come to mind:
>
> How is the server bootstrapped? And how is the initial user account
> configured?


I thought about initially storing a developer user "Admin:Admin" user in
the database.
Users are asked to modify (or even delete) that.



> The most essential basic role would be to access the UI and
> to configure push notifications (and one to add other (admin) users).
> Are there any other roles that we should be considering? Things that
> should be disabled for some users?
>

Perhaps. I, initially, had only the "developer" role in mind: allowed for
all the things.
We could (later?) add some Admin that has the right to create devs etc


-Matthias



>
> Thanks,
>
> Hylke
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