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

[Marek Posolda]

+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
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> On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 6:48 AM Stian Thorgersen <sthorger at 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.
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