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

[Stefan Guilhen]

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 at redhat.com> 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 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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