[Koha-bugs] [Bug 20340] Ability to use authentication plugin

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20340

--- Comment #43 from David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> ---
I think we should ask ourselves what we're trying to achieve here. Are we
adding authentication plugins via the Staff UI, because it's too difficult to
get changes into Koha, especially around authentication?

I would love for there to be more authentication methods for Koha. In fact, I
wrote a generic OpenID Connect client for Koha, which I support locally. 

Of course, one of the reasons why I haven't tried to get it into Koha (besides
sharing some code at
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21586 for other
people to use) is that I thought I'd never be able to get changes to C4::Auth
pushed. Partially because I didn't have enough time/money to dedicate to
working on it for the community, and partially because I thought that I didn't
have enough influence/power within the community.

I know that I've heard grumblings behind closed doors from even prominent
community folk about it being too hard to get changes into Koha these days. I
wonder if the desire for user-managed authentication plugins is indicative of a
larger problem within the Koha community.

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