Executive Summary: A community member needs to login to a community’s user portal using his or her community username and password.
Component | User facing? | Component’s role in the capability |
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Globus Auth | yes | XSEDE’s public authentication interface, based on OpenID Connect (OIDC). Globus Auth provides the authentication interface that allows direct XSEDE authentication via 2-legged OAuth2 and indirect authentication via 3-legged OAuth2 and OIDC. |
Kerberos | no | XSEDE’s Kerberos service, which stores all XSEDE usernames and passwords and provides simple username/password authentication. |
yes | The front-end (web browser-based) user interface to the XSEDE system where individuals register with XSEDE, manage their user profile information, request allocations to use XSEDE SP resources, and manage membership in projects that have active allocations. |