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Automation-friendly API Tokens for Synapse Administration #5323

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hawkowl opened this issue Jun 3, 2019 · 2 comments
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Automation-friendly API Tokens for Synapse Administration #5323

hawkowl opened this issue Jun 3, 2019 · 2 comments
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T-Enhancement New features, changes in functionality, improvements in performance, or user-facing enhancements. z-p2 (Deprecated Label)

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hawkowl commented Jun 3, 2019

When you have some variety of automation of maintenance of your Synapse server, an explicit API token can have several benefits over an "admin" user and access token:

  • It does not create a device/etc which is not actually a Matrix client, and scripts/tools don't need to be able to log in to a Matrix server to get a valid key (or have it provided)
  • The creation of a user is not required (e.g. bootstrapping), the addition of a unique secret token in the configuration file can be used to perform these tasks
  • It is not tied to the lifespan of user logins (which may be purged)
  • It can have its own lifespan rules that may not make sense for user access tokens (e.g. use-until date for short-lived tokens, or extremely long-lived tokens)
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@neilisfragile neilisfragile added the z-p2 (Deprecated Label) label Jun 10, 2019
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richvdh commented Dec 3, 2019

looks like work on this is starting at #6222

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richvdh commented Jun 8, 2020

might be better to use OAuth2 scopes: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/2615

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kmohrf pushed a commit to grouprise/grouprise that referenced this issue Feb 7, 2021
@sumpfralle
matrix_chat: add automatic registering of bot user
8a13a83 
Sadly the registration of a new user requires dirty interaction with the
matrix-synapse server (reconfiguration and restart).
See matrix-org/synapse#5323
kmohrf pushed a commit to grouprise/grouprise that referenced this issue Feb 7, 2021
@sumpfralle
matrix_chat: add automatic registering of bot user
3d5e4ac 
Sadly the registration of a new user requires dirty interaction with the
matrix-synapse server (reconfiguration and restart).
See matrix-org/synapse#5323
kmohrf pushed a commit to grouprise/grouprise that referenced this issue Feb 7, 2021
@sumpfralle
matrix_chat: add automatic registering of bot user
65c6376 
Sadly the registration of a new user requires dirty interaction with the
matrix-synapse server (reconfiguration and restart).
See matrix-org/synapse#5323
kmohrf pushed a commit to grouprise/grouprise that referenced this issue Apr 24, 2021
@sumpfralle
matrix_chat: add automatic registering of bot user
3f43b3a 
Sadly the registration of a new user requires dirty interaction with the
matrix-synapse server (reconfiguration and restart).
See matrix-org/synapse#5323
kmohrf pushed a commit to grouprise/grouprise that referenced this issue May 15, 2021
@sumpfralle
feat(matrix_chat): add automatic registering of bot user
e87e0a6 
Sadly the registration of a new user requires dirty interaction with the
matrix-synapse server (reconfiguration and restart).
See matrix-org/synapse#5323
kmohrf pushed a commit to grouprise/grouprise that referenced this issue May 15, 2021
@sumpfralle
feat(matrix_chat): add automatic registering of bot user
90e52f5 
Sadly the registration of a new user requires dirty interaction with the
matrix-synapse server (reconfiguration and restart).
See matrix-org/synapse#5323
kmohrf pushed a commit to grouprise/grouprise that referenced this issue May 16, 2021
@sumpfralle
feat(matrix_chat): add automatic registering of bot user
edddb40 
Sadly the registration of a new user requires dirty interaction with the
matrix-synapse server (reconfiguration and restart).
See matrix-org/synapse#5323
kmohrf pushed a commit to grouprise/grouprise that referenced this issue May 16, 2021
@sumpfralle
feat(matrix_chat): add automatic registering of bot user
53a75f9 
Sadly the registration of a new user requires dirty interaction with the
matrix-synapse server (reconfiguration and restart).
See matrix-org/synapse#5323
kmohrf pushed a commit to grouprise/grouprise that referenced this issue May 16, 2021
@sumpfralle
feat(matrix_chat): add automatic registering of bot user
3f5bba3 
Sadly the registration of a new user requires dirty interaction with the
matrix-synapse server (reconfiguration and restart).
See matrix-org/synapse#5323
kmohrf pushed a commit to grouprise/grouprise that referenced this issue May 16, 2021
@sumpfralle
feat(matrix_chat): add automatic registering of bot user
bc41750 
Sadly the registration of a new user requires dirty interaction with the
matrix-synapse server (reconfiguration and restart).
See matrix-org/synapse#5323
kmohrf pushed a commit to grouprise/grouprise that referenced this issue May 16, 2021
@sumpfralle
feat(matrix_chat): add automatic registering of bot user
d9343cd 
Sadly the registration of a new user requires dirty interaction with the
matrix-synapse server (reconfiguration and restart).
See matrix-org/synapse#5323
kmohrf pushed a commit to grouprise/grouprise that referenced this issue May 18, 2021
@sumpfralle
feat(matrix_chat): add automatic registering of bot user
40dd927 
Sadly the registration of a new user requires dirty interaction with the
matrix-synapse server (reconfiguration and restart).
See matrix-org/synapse#5323
kmohrf pushed a commit to grouprise/grouprise that referenced this issue May 18, 2021
@sumpfralle
feat(matrix_chat): add automatic registering of bot user
c636227 
Sadly the registration of a new user requires dirty interaction with the
matrix-synapse server (reconfiguration and restart).
See matrix-org/synapse#5323
kmohrf pushed a commit to grouprise/grouprise that referenced this issue May 19, 2021
@sumpfralle
feat(matrix_chat): add automatic registering of bot user
2e12ded 
Sadly the registration of a new user requires dirty interaction with the
matrix-synapse server (reconfiguration and restart).
See matrix-org/synapse#5323
kmohrf pushed a commit to grouprise/grouprise that referenced this issue May 19, 2021
@sumpfralle
feat(matrix_chat): add automatic registering of bot user
e0a3fbd 
Sadly the registration of a new user requires dirty interaction with the
matrix-synapse server (reconfiguration and restart).
See matrix-org/synapse#5323
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