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support an "approval" workflow

Flow:

  • user triggers deployment
  • an admin is informed of the request to create an account for this user
  • the user is informed that the account creation is pending approval
  • required action from admin -> approve (& deploy) / reject

Notes:

  • should be independent of backend
  • might define additional user states

Questions:

  • how do we store the pending state for a user?
  • (how) do we keep track of reserved names and uids?
  • is the user informed when the account is deployed?

Idea:

  • feudal stores only the oidc unique id for accounts pending approval
  • an email is sent to the admin the first time a deployment is triggered
  • subsequent times, the user gets a message saying that their account is still in pending state
  • content of email to admin: command to deploy user, different for each backend
    • local_unix -> easy
    • LDAP -> LDIF format
  • pull: users are not informed, they need to check if their account has been deployed
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