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

[Stian Thorgersen]

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 at redhat.com> 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 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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