We are working on the remaining blockers now.
I expect to have a new RC by end of the week or next week.

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:52 PM, O'Connell, Richard <
Richard.O'[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Larry and Jerome.  It sounds like OpenID Connect would be more
> appropriate implementation.
>
> Is there an expected release date for Knox  0.14.0 ?
>
> -Rich
>
> From: Jérôme LELEU
> Reply-To: "[email protected]"
> Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 10:21 AM
> To: larry mccay
> Cc: "[email protected]"
> Subject: Re: Configuring Knox for generic OAuth
>
> Hi,
>
> This is the great advantage of SAML/CAS/OpenID Connect over OAuth, there
> is one SAML2Client, OidcClient, CasClient versus multiple clients for the
> various OAuth providers (FacebookClient, TwitterClient, ...): these
> protocols are better standards without gaps in the specs.
>
> Notice in pac4j v2.x, we have a GenericOAuth2Client though I'm not sure if
> this is available in Knox.
>
> Thanks.
> Best regards,
> Jérôme
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:02 PM, larry mccay <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rich -
>>
>> Glad to hear that you are using Apache Knox!
>>
>> Pac4J OAuth providers require the creation of a "client" provider - as I
>> understand it.
>> Whether you can leverage any of the existing clients for a Ping IdP, I do
>> not know but wouldn't expect.
>> I am adding Jerome here for further insights - if he has any.
>>
>> OpenID Connect support appears to allow for a more generic integration
>> and others have been more successful in using that.
>>
>> Something to be aware of for both of those mechanisms is that you will
>> likely need the change in KNOX-1119 in order to get a meaningful user
>> principal from the authentication. Otherwise, you will need to get creative
>> with the identity assertion providers and try and map the IDs returned to
>> user accounts.
>>
>> KNOX-1119 will be in the upcoming 0.14.0 and 1.0.0 releases.
>>
>> HTH.
>>
>> --larry
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 5:35 PM, O'Connell, Richard <
>> Richard.O'[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> We have been using Knox a little over 2 years to protect Kafka in our
>>> HDP implementation. However we are still relatively inexperienced with Knox
>>> beyond the basics.
>>>
>>> We are currently using AD/LDAP authentication but are wanting to move
>>> towards using OAuth which is the standard for our IDP (an implementation of
>>> Ping Identity).  I have read the documentation and found that pac4j does
>>> support OAuth but have not found a good example of a knoxsso.xml and other
>>> configuration files necessary  for a generic OAuth implementation with Knox.
>>>
>>> Any examples or guidance would be much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> -Rich
>>>
>>
>>
>

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