[cas-user] Neo4j integration proposal

[Cristian Capozucco]

Hi everyone,

I would like to expose you all a little idea of mine.

As far as I know, CAS does not provide any type of integration with graph based databases (no authentication methods like that are shown in the documentation). That is, I think it would be interesting to build an integration with the above mentioned database type using Neo4j [1]. In particular, the features that will be implemented are the following ones:

1. User authentication: users will be stored as nodes with all the needed info (username, password ecc) and CAS will check if the provided credentials are stored in one of these nodes;
1. Groups and roles may be stored as nodes as well: an edge between a User and a Group/Role states that the user belongs to that group/role;
   
2. Service registry: services will be stored as nodes with all the needed info (serviceId, policies ecc)
1. Users and Groups and Roles may be connected to the Services with an Edge: users directly connected to the services may access those ones (same thing applies for the users belonging to Groups and Roles connected to the service

What do you think about it? Would it be interesting and, most importantly, useful?

[1] https://neo4j.com/

Best regards,

Cristian Capozucco

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Dott. Magistrale Cristian Capozucco

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