On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 10:09 PM Ben Ramsey <ram...@php.net> wrote:
>
> On 5/29/22 09:57, Andreas Heigl wrote:
> > But the bad news is, that there is also the colobus system which powers
> > the NNTP-server backend that a number of people use to interact with the
> > mailing-list. Which also has an authentication and would therefore need
> > to be switched. So we are back at 9 services. And we switched one that
> > is completely under our control to one that isn't as we are merely using
> > a (rather old by now) service.
>
> I've looked into colobus a fair amount, and it does not use
> authentication itself. It accepts requests to post to newgroups, but
> then it appears to primarily act as a proxy for ezmlm, which has it's
> own form of authentication, and we're not going to be able to tie the
> ezmlm authentication to GitHub.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Ben

There's also the OAuth Proxy project:
https://oauth2-proxy.github.io/oauth2-proxy/docs/features/endpoints
which allows you to use some baked-in features of nginx in order to
provide unauthenticated/legacy services with protection and
appropriate authentication headers:
https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_auth_request_module.html.

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