Re: [OAUTH-WG] oauth with command line clients

I second the recommendation to use the device flow for this kind of 
system. The commandline client would print out a text string for the 
user to enter into their browser elsewhere.

If you can pop up a system browser then it's even easier and you can 
just use the auth code flow, but it's a lot to assume that a commandline 
app can have that kind of capability available to it. Printing out a 
string? That's easy and universal. That's why I say go with the device flow.

The thing is, at the end of the day, you need the user to authenticate 
to the AS if you're going to get delegated access from them. That's 
really the whole point of the OAuth protocol, after all. So you can 
either do that in a local browser of some kind (like popping a system 
browser), on another device (with the device flow), or you can be evil 
and use the username/password grant and just steal the user's 
credentials yourself. If it's not clear, I don't recommend that, 
basically ever.

  -- Justin

On 6/11/2017 11:58 PM, Aaron Parecki wrote:
> I've seen this done a few ways:
>
> * The Device Flow: 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-device-flow which is what 
> you see on browserless devices like the Apple TV logging in to a cable 
> provider from your phone. A short code is generated and displayed on 
> the screen, you launch a browser on your phone and enter the code. 
> This would work just as well from the command line on the same device.
> * I've also seen apps use the authorization flow, by displaying the 
> authorization URL on the command line prompt and instructing the user 
> to open it in a browser. The redirect URI is a hosted web page that 
> displays the authorization code and instructs the user to paste it 
> back at the terminal.
> * The command line app can launch an HTTP server on localhost and use 
> that as the redirect URL for the authorization code flow. This option 
> ends up being the most seamless since it works like a traditional flow 
> without any special instructions to the user.
>
> ----
> Aaron Parecki
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>
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 8:52 PM, Bill Burke <bburke@redhat.com 
> <mailto:bburke@redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Has anybody done any spec work around doing oauth from command
>     line interfaces?  We're looking for something where the auth
>     server can generate text-based challenges that are rendered in the
>     console window that query for simple text input over possibly
>     multiple requests.  I'm not talking about Resource Owner or Client
>     Credentials grant.  The command line client may not know the
>     credential types required for a successful token request. It would
>     be easy to write a simple protocol, but I'd rather just do
>     something around any existing internet draft or rfc that somebody
>     has put some thought into.  Hope I'm making sense here.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Bill Burke
>
>     Red Hat
>
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