[ixpmanager] [RELEASE] V5.2.0 - PeeringDB OAuth, rfc1997 pass-through, framework upgrade

Barry O'Donovan barry.odonovan at inex.ie
Thu Oct 10 20:28:04 IST 2019


Thanks for the update Rasmus. Glad it's all working :-)

  - Barry



Rasmus Åberg wrote on 02/10/2019 16:28:
> Thanks for the feedback. Ended up going with enabled by default.
> 
> So, we're using v5.2.0 now. The only issue during the upgrade was related to missing out on the following commit: https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/commit/0eaffc5f38dfe87d5008eef49ede4d85ba71d7b6
> 
> Other than that, everything seems to be working fine.
> 
> //Rasmus
> 
> On 2019-10-01, 10:55, "Barry O'Donovan" <barry.odonovan at inex.ie> wrote:
> 
>      
>      
>      Rasmus Åberg wrote on 01/10/2019 09:45:
>      > Is it possible for customers, by themselves, to choose if they want
>      > to enable/disable PDB login? As I understood the docs, only
>      > superadmins can change it right now, or?
>      
>      Right now, only superadmins.
>      
>      We put quite a bit of thought into this and some of the reasoning includes:
>      
>      * access is as custuser by default (read only).
>      * PeeringDB do a pretty good check when creating and assigning a user to
>      an org.
>      * the exposure is pretty minimal really (traffic graphs at an IX).
>      * we discussed it with a lot of members (INEX members and other IX
>      members) and got zero objections. In fact the response was
>      over-overwhelmingly in favour of this.
>      * 'off by default' at one IX will cause confusion and head-scratching
>      and creates a barrier to access that I think - based on current
>      discussions - in >99% of cases is not necessary.
>      
>      Provision for the majority and if any one objects, opt them out is my
>      advice.
>      
>      If we start getting feedback in the other direction we'll certainly look
>      at reviewing this. And we may also add the option to disable for the
>      member in the next pass at the member area.
>      
>      Hope that helps explain where we came from on this,
>      
>       - Barry
>      
>      
>      > The reason I'm asking is because I'm thinking about disabling it by
>      > default and let custadmins enable it by themselves. But if I need to
>      > do it manually for every customer it's gonna be a pain...
>      >
>      > //Rasmus
>      >
>      > On 2019-10-01, 10:34, "ixpmanager on behalf of Barry O'Donovan"
>      > <ixpmanager-bounces at inex.ie on behalf of barry.odonovan at inex.ie>
>      > wrote:
>      >
>      > Hi Boris,
>      >
>      > Boris Mimeur wrote on 01/10/2019 00:27:
>      >> Great work on this. We upgraded to 5.2 and got the Peering OAuth
>      >> working seemlessly. Very useful feature !
>      >
>      > Yay!
>      >
>      > I could be wrong but I suspect you're the second to implement this
>      > after us (INEX).
>      >
>      > Many of our members certainly like it. We have 15 users that have
>      > signed in with it and many would be first time users from our larger
>      > international membership so that's an immediate win.
>      >
>      > - Barry
>      >
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>      
>      --
>      
>      Kind regards,
>      Barry O'Donovan
>      INEX Operations
>      
>      https://www.inex.ie/support/
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>      
>      
>      
> 


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Kind regards,
Barry O'Donovan
INEX Operations

https://www.inex.ie/support/
+353 1 531 3339



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