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Re: [OAUTH-WG] One-time token login

Neil Madden <neil.madden@forgerock.com> Tue, 02 March 2021 20:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] One-time token login
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One option is JWT Bearer grant with “jti” and replay prevention (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7523#page-7 ) if your AS supports it. This is nice if some other component is generating the emails as it needs no coordination with the AS. 

— Neil

> On 2 Mar 2021, at 19:04, Evert Pot <me@evertpot.com> wrote:
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> Dear list,
> 
> We have a requirement to let users log in to an application via a code sent by email.
> This code needs to be exchanged for an access/refresh token pair, and should only work once.
> 
> The access/refresh token scope would give limited access to the application. Since we already use the authorization_code flow for other (more sensitive) parts of the application, I would like to re-use the OAuth2 framework for parts of this.
> 
> It doesn't sit right with me to overload the 'code' in authorization_code, so I was considering introducing a new custom grant_type for our application, specific for this purpose.
> It seems that grant_type in the 'token' endpoint would support extension in this manner, by using a uri such as https://vendor.example/email-token
> 
> I'm comfortable implementing this, but curious:
> 
> Is there already some prior art that I'm not aware of? I'd rather not do a custom grant_type if there's something standard I could do.
> Are there any major pitfalls associated with this?
> Evert
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