Re: [OAUTH-WG] user impersonation protocol?

Yeah, I know its risky, but that's the requirement.  Was just wondering 
if there was any protocol work being done around it, so that we could 
avoid doing a lot of the legwork to make it safe/effective.  Currently 
for us, we need to do this between two separate IDPs, which is where the 
protocol work comes in...If it was just a single IDP managing 
everything, then it would just be an internal custom IDP feature.

Thanks all.

On 2/16/2015 12:37 AM, Bill Mills wrote:
> User impersonation is very very risky.  The legal aspects of it must be
> considered.  There's a lot of work to do to make it safe/effective.
>
> Issuing a scoped token that allows ready only access can work with the
> above caveats.  Then properties/componenets have to explicitly support
> the new scope and do the right thing.
>
>
> On Sunday, February 15, 2015 8:34 PM, Justin Richer <jricher@mit.edu> wrote:
>
>
> For this case you'd want to be very careful about who was able to do
> such impersonation, obviously, but it's doable today with custom IdP
> behavior. You can simply use OpenID Connect and have the IdP issue an id
> token for the target user instead of the "actual" current user account.
>
> I would also suggest considering adding a custom claim to the id token
> to indicate this is taking place. That way you can differentiate where
> needed, including in logs.
>
> -- Justin
>
> / Sent from my phone /
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Bill Burke <bburke@redhat.com>
> Date:02/15/2015 10:55 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: oauth <oauth@ietf.org>
> Cc:
> Subject: [OAUTH-WG] user impersonation protocol?
>
> We have a case where we want to allow a logged in admin user to
> impersonate another user so that they can visit differents browser apps
> as that user (So they can see everything that the user sees through
> their browser).
>
> Anybody know of any protocol work being done here in the OAuth group or
> some other IETF or even Connect effort that would support something like
> this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
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