Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: osiris
Version: 1.0.beta1
Summary: Pyramid based oAuth server
Home-page: https://github.com/sneridagh/osiris.git
Author: Victor Fernandez de Alba
Author-email: sneridagh@gmail.com
License: UNKNOWN
Description: Introduction
        ============
        
        Osiris (/oʊˈsaɪərɨs/) is an Egyptian god, usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead. He is classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and holding a symbolic crook and flail. Osiris was the afterlife's judge, he weighed the dead souls and compare them with the Feather of Truth. Those which weighed the most were sent to Ammut (the soul devourer) and not heavy enough to Aaru (the egyptian paradise).
        
        Osiris is an oAuth 2.0 (draft 22) compliant server based on Pyramid. The current version (1.0) it supports the `resource owner password credentials` authentication flow. It uses pyramid_who as user backend providing the way to behave as an oAuth authentication gateway. This means that you can use your authentication backend (LDAP, SQL, etc.) oAuth enabled with Osiris. Osiris uses a pluggable store factory to store the issued token information. The current version includes the MongoDB one.
        
        The `resource owner password credentials` flow
        ==============================================
        
        This flow is not the most popular oAuth flow, but it's useful in case that we want to oAuth enable an app or a set of apps in an scenario with an already existing user backend. Using this flow you can use Osiris as a gateway between your existing user store and oAuth enable it. Osiris will authenticate the user credentials against your user store and if suceeds it will issue a oAuth token. Then, an app can use it to impersonate the user's token to access an oAuth enabled REST API, for example.
        
        For that reason and out of the oAuth specification, Osiris features an additional endpoint to allow remote applications and resource servers to check previously issued tokens and users and validate it. This endpoint will respond if the token is valid for the user specified and if the token is not expired or revoked.
        
        You can use Osiris as a standalone application or use it as a Pyramid plugin and make your app Osiris enabled.
        
        Setup
        =====
        
        This is the configuration to use it as a standalone Pyramid app, along with your own one using Paste urlmap in your app .ini:
        
        .. code-block:: ini
        
            [server:main]
            use = egg:Paste#http
            host = 0.0.0.0
            port = 80
        
            [composite:main]
            use = egg:Paste#urlmap
            / = YOURAPP
            /oauth2 = osiris
        
            [app:osiris]
            use = egg:osiris
        
            osiris.store = osiris.store.mongodb_store
            osiris.store.host = localhost
            osiris.store.port = 27017
            osiris.store.db = osiris
            osiris.store.collection = tokens
            osiris.tokenexpiry = 0
        
            osiris.whoconfig = %(here)s/who.ini
        
            [app:YOURAPP]
            use = egg:YOURAPP
            full_stack = true
            static_files = true
        
        You can also Osiris enable your own app, in your __init__.py::
        
            config.include(osiris)
        
        and in the .ini:
        
        .. code-block:: ini
        
            osiris.store = osiris.store.mongodb_store
            osiris.store.host = localhost
            osiris.store.port = 27017
            osiris.store.db = osiris
            osiris.store.collection = tokens
            osiris.tokenexpiry = 0
        
            osiris.whoconfig = %(here)s/who.ini
        
        Options
        =======
        
        These are the .ini options available for Osiris:
        
        osiris.store
            Currently only available ``osiris.store.mongodb_store``. Required.
        
        osiris.store.host
            Defaults to 'localhost'. Optional.
        
        osiris.store.port
            Defaults to '27017'. Optional.
        
        osiris.store.db
            The name of the database. Defaults to 'osiris'. Optional.
        
        osiris.store.collection
            The collection to store the tokens. Defaults to 'tokens'. Optional.
        
        osiris.tokenexpiry
            The time in seconds that the token is valid. Defaults to 0 (unlimited). Optional.
        
        osiris.whoconfig
            The pyramid_who (repoze.who) .ini with the configuration of the authentication backends. Required.
        
        REST API for `resource owner password credentials` flow
        =======================================================
        
        Following the oAuth 2.0 authentication standard (draft 22), the `Resource owner password credentials` flow must implement this web services and use these parameters:
        
        /token
            Method:
                POST
            
            Params:
                grant_type
                    Required. Value must be set to password
        
                username
                    Required. The resource owner username, encoded as UTF-8.
        
                password
                    Required. The resource owner password, encoded as UTF-8.
        
                scope
                    Optional.  The scope of the access request.
        
            Content-Type:
                application/x-www-form-urlencoded
        
            Response:
                 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
                 Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
                 Cache-Control: no-store
                 Pragma: no-cache
        
                 {
                   "access_token":"2YotnFZFEjr1zCsicMWpAA",
                   "token_type":"bearer",
                   "expires_in":3600,
                   "scope": "exampleScope"
                 }
        
        To do
        =====
        
        Osiris features only one oAuth 2.0 authentication flow, the `Resource owner password credentials`. It's ready to accomodate the remaining flows defined by oAuth 2.0. A similar case happens with the available storage backends. The current version sports only the MongoDB storage but Osiris support the use of a plugin storage model and can accomodate more storage types.
        
        Of course, any contribution is welcome. Please, feel free to contribute with your own storage plugins and help implementing the remaining oAuth flows.
        
        Credits
        =======
        
        Pluggable store factory inspired by Ben Bangert's Velruse (https://github.com/bbangert/velruse).
        Borrowed error handling from pyramid-oauth2 (http://code.google.com/p/pyramid-oauth2/) by Kevin Van Wilder et al.
        
        
        ChangeLog
        =========
        
        1.0 beta1 (2012-02-22)
        ----------------------
        
        -  Initial version
        
Keywords: web pyramid pylons
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Framework :: Pylons
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: WSGI :: Application
