[Freeipa-devel] Community Portal Milestone

[Petr Vobornik]

On 06/10/2015 04:55 PM, Drew Erny wrote:
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> On 06/10/2015 10:16 AM, Martin Kosek wrote:
>> AFAIK, this work would form some standalone page utilizing the FreeIPA
>> Web UI framework we have already, to get the same look and feel. Using
>> FreeIPA API to store/manipulate user entries should be thus much
>> easier, then taking care of separate database. Also, if Stage user
>> tree is used, the admins doing the validation of user entries may also
>> have other responsibilities in FreeIPA, so they may welcome having
>> these entries in Stage User in the FreeIPA Web UI without going to
>> special application. Just my thoughts, I would welcome other feedback.
> I'm worried if I try to fit this into the existing WebUI framework, I'm
> gonna end up wrangling with the fact that the WebUI expects to have an
> authenticated LDAP user, but we need anonymous access for both
> self-service registration and (eventually) for password reset. I'm not
> sure what kind of changes would be needed to make this work. I'll use
> the stageuser tree either way, though; your argument on that is
> definitely correct.
>

https://ipa.demo1.freeipa.org/ipa/ui/sync_otp.html is an example of such 
standalone page.

Web UI framework doesn't need authentication until it talks to IPA API.
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Petr Vobornik