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Authenticators are used to prove a CO Person's identity to an applicatio= n or service. An Authenticator combined with an Identifier is a credent= ial. Although COmanage is built around the concept of external id= entity, there are a number of use cases where it makes sense for collaborat= ion managed credentials to be used to access services, including
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Authen= ticators are available as of registry v3.1.0 (The SSH Key Authenticator plugin is available as of Registry v3.3.= 0. Prior to v3.3.0, SSH Key management is available via the CO Person canva= s).
There are multiple concepts with similar names. For clarity, here are th= eir definitions:
Because Authenticators are collaboration issued, they are attached to th= e CO Person, not to Organizational Identities (as for external credentials). In = general, Registry does not know how to validate Authenticators, they (= or metadata about them) are simply stored in the Registry database. Authent= icators are passed to the provisioning infrastructure, so that Provisioning Plugins may use the Authentic= ator information to populate downstream services. For example, the LDAP Provisioner Plugin= may write a user password or SSH key attribute using Authenticator data.= p>
Authenticator Backends can support single or multiple values, as determi= ned by the Authenticator Plugin. In general, whether an Authenticator Plugi= n supports multiple values depends on whether it makes sense for the CO Per= son to be able to manage multiple Authenticators of the same type for thems= elves.
For example, the Password Authenticator Plugin is single valued, meaning each insta= ntiated backend may only have one password associated with it. (A given Pas= swordAuthenticator hasOne Password per CO Person.) If you want to support m= ultiple passwords to be managed, you can instantiate multiple Backends. A C= O Person cannot create a second password for themselves.
On the other hand, the Certificate Authenticator Plugin is multi-valued,= meaning each instantiated backend may support multiple certificates. = (A given CertificateAuthenticator hasMany Certificate per CO Person.) This = allows a CO Person to upload multiple certificates to attach to their opera= tional record. (In general, there is no need to multiply instantiate an Aut= henticator Plugin that supports multiple values, although it is technically= possible to do so.)
Registry supports the following operations on Authenticators for a CO Pe= rson:
Upon any operation, the provisioning infrastructure is executed so that = the Provisioners may perform any necessary actions. Authenticators may be m= anually reprovisioned by the usual manual reprovisioning process.
As of Registry v3.3.0, Authenticators may be collected as part of an Enrollment Flow.
As of Registry v4.0.0, notifications may be sent when an Authenticator i= s updated. To enable this capability,= first define a Message Template = span>with a context of Authenticator. Then, edit the desired Authenticator configuration. S= et the Change Message Template to the newly created template.=
Custom Authenti= cator plugins may need to manually trigger this notification. If writing a = custom plugin, see the = Authenticator Plugins documentation for more information.
As of Registry v4.0.0, URLs of the form /registry/password_authenticator= /passwords/manage/authenticatorid:X (ie: that do not specifically include a= CO Person ID) will automatically redirect to the current CO Person's Authe= nticator management page (or require login if there is no current session).= This is useful to offer a generic "Manage My Credential" link from a user = portal or documentation source.
Because Authenticators are attached to the CO Person, not to Organizatio= nal Identities, and because Registry does not know how to validate Aut= henticators, they cannot be directly used to log into Registry. The followi= ng additional steps are necessary:
The type and nature of authenticators used with the Registry can be exte= nded through Plugins.&nb= sp;
There are several plugins that are already available for your use:
You can build your own authenticator plugin to extend Registry functiona= lity. Please see the following documentation to get started:
The following database tables are associated with authenticators: