[Qgis-psc] Implementation of QEP 248 - Authentication API

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Thanks a lot Alessandro!
Ciao Marco

On Tue, 1 Oct 2024, 04:07 Alessandro Pasotti via QGIS-PSC, <
qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> QEP 248 has been successfully merged a few weeks ago,
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/248
>
> Thanks to all the donors that made this possible:
>
>    - Gis3W https://gis3w.it/
>    - QGIS Grant program
>    - Hytech-imaging, spectral imaging for environmental mapping and
>    monitoring in civil and defence applications https://hytech-imaging.fr/
>    - QTIBIA ENGINEERING https://qtibia.com/
>    - QGIS-DE - Anwendergruppe Deutschland https://www.qgis.de/
>
>
> The new API has currently a limited impact on the user experience (it was
> initially planned to overcome the SQLite scaling issues for QGIS server
> deployments in the cloud) but it opens the doors to interesting features
> that could be implemented in the future.
>
> In addition to what was initially planned an abstraction layer has been
> added with the goal to make third party credentials storage (Python)
> implementations possible.
>
> The API now supports prioritized multiple encrypted (and unencrypted)
> credentials storages and read-only storages with the possibility for a
> storage to provide only a limited set of the assets that are managed by the
> authentication manager (e.g. authentication configurations, settings,
> certificate authorities etc.) with a limited set of capabilities (read,
> write, delete etc.).
>
> The documentation was updated with some more information about this new
> feature:
> https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/auth_system/auth_overview.html#custom-authentication-databases
>
> Kind regards.
>
> --
> Alessandro Pasotti
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