[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 098 Forms based authentication UI

[Petr Vobornik]

On 03/02/2012 12:39 AM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Petr Vobornik wrote:
>> Support for forms based authentication was added to UI.
>>
>> It consist of:
>>
>> 1) new login page
>> Page url is [ipa server]/ipa/ui/login.html
>>
>> Page contains a login form. For authentication it sends ajax request at
>> [ipa server]/session/json/login_password. If authentication is
>> successfull page is redirected to [ipa server]/ipa/ui if it fails from
>> whatever reason a message is shown.
>>
>> 2) new enhanced error dialog - authorization_dialog.
>>
>> This dialog is displayed when user is not authorized to perform action -
>> usually when ticket and session expires.
>> It is a standard error dialog which shows kerberos ticket related error
>> message and newly offers (as a link) to use form based authentication.
>> If user click on the link, the dialog content and buttons switch to
>> login dialog which has same functionality as 'new login page'. User is
>> able to return back to the error message by clicking on a back button.
>>
>> login.html uses same css styles as migration page -> ipa-migration.css
>> was merged into ipa.css.
>>
>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2450
>>
>> Theoretically the login.html is not needed.
>> Sometime later we should come up with a method how to i18n static pages
>> and main page prior to authentication.
>
> ACK. It looks like ipa.js in master and ipa-2-2 have diverged slightly,
> I'll let you push this so you can make sure everything is ok.
>
> rob

Pushed to master an ipa-2-2.

ipa.js is same in master and ipa-2-2. Maybe you were confused by the 
fact that when I was recently pushing 14 batches at once, I pushed two 
pairs of patches in different order. (Is it bad?) The final code is the 
same though.

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Petr Vobornik