Talking Drupal #447 - Drupal Single Sign On

Today we are talking about Drupal Single Sign On, The Benefits it
brings to the Drupal Community, and A new book called Fog &
Fireflies with guest Tim Lehnen. We’ll also cover Drupal.org
Username Field as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/447
Topics

What is Single Sign On (SSO)

Does Drupal already support SSO

Why is SSO on drupal.org important

Camps using SSO

Other possibilities

Gitlab login

Cloud IAM

Why did the Drupal Association choose Cloud IAM

How do you see the collaboration growing

Where are we now

What are the next steps

How far are we from this becoming a reality

What does onboarding look like

Will third party sites be able to use D.O SSO

Can the community help

Fog & Fireflies

First book

Can you buy it now



Resources

Single Sign On is coming to Drupal.org thanks to Cloud IAM

A new book called Fog & Fireflies

Open ID Connect module

Keycloak

Neil Drumm

Lucas Heddn

Marco Villegas

Tim Lehnen

Guests

Tim Lehnen - aspenthornpress.com hestenet
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Matt Glaman - mglaman.dev mglaman
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to have a field on user profiles
specifically designed for drupal.org usernames? There’s a
module for that



Module name/project name:

Drupal.org Username Field



Brief history

How old: created in August 2019 by hussainweb AKA
Hussain Abbas of Axelerant

Versions available: 2.0.0-beta4



Maintainership

Actively maintained, that release was made less than 6
months ago

Test coverage

Number of open issues: 8 open issues, none of which are
bugs



Usage stats:

1 site



Module features and usage

The module provides a new field type, along with its
own widget and formatter

With a simple checkbox, you can get the module to
validate that the provided username is registered on
drupal.org

What’s really powerful about this module is that it can
also pull other information from the drupal.org profile,
such as first and last name, country, bio, and more

It does this by leveraging a Guzzle-based API client
for drupal.org that Hussain created as part of a DrupalCon
Asia developer contest

I believe the intended use of the modules is to use a
provided drush command to copy the values from the
drupal.org username field into other fields, where they
would be displayed to site visitors

Although this module isn’t something that a lot of
sites will need, I could see it being really useful for
Drupal camp websites, to automatically collect a lot of the
information that many such sites ask users to populate
manually

I think it’s also an interesting use of the Drupal.org
API, and could be a useful reference for anyone needing to
implement a custom integration