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Reference Implementation: HeaderPrincipalFactory Fedora ships with this simple principal factory that creates string-based security principals from request headers. This is useful in cases, like the Apache HTTP Shibboleth module, where additional attributes are supplied as request headers. |
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OAuth 2.0 Third-Party User Authentication
This feature allows a user to sign-in via a third-party service, such as Google, Yahoo or Facebook. The result of the OAuth 2.0 authentication flow is a username and access to whatever user account details are within the authorized scope, such as email address. Fedora is then free to use these user details to create a local user account or assign privileges as required for Fedora authorization. (All that this work flow provides is user authentication.)
OAuth 2.0 Authorization of Third-Party Applications
From the OAuth 1.0 specification:
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