On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:20:10AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> Am 2022-10-18 04:52, schrieb Paul Wise:
> > > Salsa should be there for git (related) things.
> > > NOT as an identity/login provider for Debian
Please formally retract the agreement that was forged two years ago
then. I properly referenced it already. Until then, it still is an
identity provider.
> No, it is a bad, not a good thing, to use Salsa for this.
> Salsa is a "repository service" with some added nice features related to
> them. It is good at that, yay. Fine.
No, it is much more then a repository system.
> Salsa is really bad as an identity/authentication service. Having a salsa
> account does NOT mean ANYTHING related to Debian, like DM/DD/whatever.
It is an identity provider, yes. It provides a fixed identity.
Further information are optional. Where are they required?
> And
> thats information that such a service ought to provide too.
This is the Debian LDAP.
> It also does not
> allow any kind of useful management of identities besides "the account is
> there/blocked/deleted". And so, as soon as you would want to NOT allow
> someone a login to a service that uses salsa as a login service - you need
> to delete their account. Including their repositories and abilities there.
> Not good.
When exactly do you want to do that and how would that work?
Bastian
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