Bug 430793

Summary:	RFE: Support for the Fedora Accounts System
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] KAccounts	Reporter:	Neal Gompa <ngompa>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <admin>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	herzenschein, justin.zobel, nicolas.fella, rdieter, vascom2, zawertun
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Neal Gompa 2020-12-24 16:58:07 UTC

SUMMARY
The Fedora Project provides accounts for accessing a number of contributor and user resources. This most notably includes our upcoming Matrix server (chat.fedoraproject.org). The login mechanism is GSSAPI/Kerberos, which browsers and other things that have GSSAPI integration can use to auto-login using the existing session (because the id.fedoraproject.org SSO gateway is GSSAPI-enabled).

It needs only to prompt for the FAS username and password, translate it to username@FEDORAPROJECT.ORG and set up the Kerberos login (offering to save the password as well).

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora 33 (KDE Plasma)
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.75.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This integration is present in GNOME already: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-online-accounts/-/issues/26

Comment 1 Nicolas Fella 2021-02-11 15:32:44 UTC

Super hacky PoC implementation at https://invent.kde.org/nicolasfella/kaccounts-fedora/

Needs porting to proper GSSAPI instead of calling kinit executable

Comment 2 Justin Zobel 2022-02-21 12:44:19 UTC

I would also love to use such a feature.

Comment 3 Neal Gompa 2025-04-16 15:03:14 UTC

Here's a GOA merge request that handles Kerberos MFA as an example for KAccounts eventually: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-online-accounts/-/merge_requests/250