Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Google deprecating OpenID 2.0
From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 11:11:41 -0800
On 2/24/15 10:15 AM, Graham Bloice wrote:
> 
> On 24 February 2015 at 17:41, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2/24/15 1:34 AM, Graham Bloice wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On 23 February 2015 at 23:51, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     > <mailto:gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     On 2/22/15 6:01 AM, Graham Bloice wrote:
>     >     > See https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OpenID
>     >     >
>     >     > Does this affect our use of Gerrit if we use a Google account to
>     >     > authenticate?
>     >
>     >     Yes. In case anyone missed the other responses you need to stop
>     >     authenticating using your Google account and switch to another
>     account
>     >     before April 20. I've added a notice to the login page.
>     >
>     >     In the near term we need to find a list of stable OpenID 2.0
>     providers
>     >     that we can recommend on the login page. In the long term we
>     need to
>     >     find a more stable way of authenticating to Gerrit.
>     >
>     >
>     > And is there any possibility of Gerrit supporting Open ID 2.0 Connect
>     > which is what Google+ supports and seems to be the future for Open ID?
>     > The Gerrit issues tracker is very confusing on this.
> 
>     I'm not sure. The closest thing I've seen so far was a change to add
>     GitHub OAuth support but it was abandoned:
> 
>     https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/c/57570/
> 
>     The following discussions provide a bit more background:
> 
>     https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/repo-discuss/Hjn-6BV3KBU
>     https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/repo-discuss/nrtxry9SNLg
> 
> 
> From those threads it seems that the GitHub OAuth 2.0 patch was
> abandoned as it wasn't "pluggable", and that they are going to come back
> with a pluggable version.

It looks like work has started:

https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/c/65101/

> It also seems that they will have to support OAuth 2.0 in general (which
> Google+ can be configured to work as), as that's where everyone is
> heading according to the list in one thread.