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

[Hynek Mlnarik]

+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 at redhat.com> 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 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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