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Henry Story reassigned CLEREZZA-494:
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Assignee: Henry Story
> Subjects should be re-used
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> Key: CLEREZZA-494
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLEREZZA-494
> Project: Clerezza
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Henry Story
> Assignee: Henry Story
> Original Estimate: 24h
> Remaining Estimate: 24h
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> With WebID a number of things need to be looked at that don't appear obvious
> when one is dealing with simple and cookie auth. This in fact also applies to
> OpenId authentication. One of these is that one can have a number of
> Principals in one WebID authentication, since an X509 cert could contain two
> webids or even an email address.
> But it also the case that someone who authentified themselves with WebID may
> later also use a password, as an additional method of authentication.
> So it seems to me that the Subject should be passed along at all stages of
> authentification. The following article on JBoss Subject usage shows quite
> clearly that this is the purpose of the Subject.
> http://oatv.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/weblogic_chap17/index1.html?page=5
> It will also be very useful as the Subject can gather credentials, both those
> that succeeded and those that failed in order to help explain why there were
> failures in a web interface. So in the case of WebID test suite we would like
> to pass the X509Claims as credentials to an explanatory page, so that one can
> explain to the user why the claims failed. The same will be true in an OpenID
> claim: it will help to the let the user know that his OpenId provider is down
> at the moment, so that he can be properly redirected.
> The changes to get this to work are quite small, but it will require some
> thinking things through. But both OpenId support and WebId suport will
> require some of this thinking to occur.
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