[IPP] Questions regarding IPP and oAuth

[IPP] Questions regarding IPP and oAuth

Jeremy Leber jeremy.leber at lexmark.com
Thu Nov 17 02:22:46 UTC 2016


Michael and Paul, thanks very much for your helpful replies!



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On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:

> Jeremy,
>
> On Nov 16, 2016, at 1:34 PM, Jeremy Leber <jeremy.leber at lexmark.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I could use some clarification on the proper way to use OAuth with IPP,
> given the following scenario:
>
> I have an IPP endpoint that requires verification of the client's identify
> and validation of the client's authorization before printing a job.  The
> client has obtained an OAuth token that will be used for this purpose.
>
> When implementing this, should the implementor assume that IPP allows and
> expects OAuthv2 tokens to be included in the HTTP header (as would be the
> case for any other HTTP request)?
>
> Yes.
>
> If this IS the case, does the system expect any other user authentication
> information in the IPP request itself?
>
> Per RFC 2911, the "requesting-user-name" attribute (and/or the
> "requesting-user-uri" attribute from PWG 5100.13) can be supplied in a
> request, but the OAuth2 identity would be considered more authoritative.
>
> As an implementor, when implementing an IPP service with OAuth, are the
> following assumptions correct?
>
>    - uri-authentication-supported MUST contain 'oauth' if OAuthv2 is
>    supported
>
> Yes
>
>
>    - oauth-authorization-server-uri MUST contain the OAuthv2
>    authorization URI to be used to authorize the user if
>    uri-authentication-supported contains 'oauth'
>
> Yes
>
>
>    - The users actual OAuthv2 token MUST be supplied in the HTTP Header
>    Authorization line as a Bearer Token per the Oauth RFC
>       - The IPP service will/may authorize access to the printer/device
>       using the supplied OAuthv2 token
>
> Yes and yes.
>
>
>    - access-oauth-token and access-oauth-uri are only used to access a
>    Document on behalf of the user to be processed by the service not for
>    printer/device access itself
>
> Correct.
>
> And a few extra questions:
>
>    - Has any discussion or consideration been had regarding using ID
>    tokens to represent the job owner (i.e. the requesting-user-name)?
>
> Some of the work in the IDS Model document included elements for this, and
> the IPP System Service specification adds a "job-owner-col" Job Status
> attribute that could be extended to include a member attribute, but right
> now an implementation just copies the name and ID (as a URI, so this could
> be an email address, etc.) to the "job-originating-user-name/uri"
> attributes.
>
>
>    - If the authentication process using SAML or OpenID Connect, it may
>    retrieve a JWT or SAML Assertion which contains the user's identity, has
>    any discussion been had about the benefits or pitfalls or delvierying the
>    JWT/Assertions as the identity instead of a simple requesting-user-name?
>
> We haven't discussed this specifically, however the
> "requesting-user-name/uri" attributes are considered non-authoritative -
> implementations are supposed to copy the most authoritative values.
>
> _________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer
>
>
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