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🎁 Ensure non-admin user friendly routing for SSO
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We are trying to serve two types of users:

- Admins
- Not-admins

Given that admins are a small subset, we can train and document how they
can sign in.  In other words, favor workflows that impact the less
trained folk to help them accomplish their tasks.

Prior to this commit, given the site had an SSO provider, when I (an
unauthenticated user) went to a private work, then it would redirect me
to the `/user/sign_in` route.

At that route I had the following option:

1. Providing a username and password
2. Selecting one of the SSO providers to use for sign-in.

The problem with this behavior was that a user who was given a
Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) URL would see a username/password and
likely attempt to authenticate with their CDL username/password (which
was managed by the SSO provider).

The end result is that the authentication page most likely would create
confusion.

With this commit, I'm setting things up such that when the application
uses calls `new_user_session_path` we make a decision on what URL to
resolve.

Related to:

- #766
- #647
- #633
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jeremyf committed Sep 13, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -185,4 +185,46 @@ def guest_email_authentication_key key
key &&= nil unless key.to_s.match(/^guest/)
key ||= "guest_" + SecureRandom.uuid + "@example.com"
end

##
# OVERRIDE Hyrax::Controller#deny_access_for_anonymous_user
#
# We are trying to serve two types of users:
#
# - Admins
# - Not-admins
#
# Given that admins are a small subset, we can train and document how they can sign in. In other
# words, favor workflows that impact the less trained folk to help them accomplish their tasks.
#
# Without this change, given the site had an SSO provider, when I (an unauthenticated user) went
# to a private work, then it would redirect me to the `/user/sign_in` route.
#
# At that route I had the following option:
#
# 1. Providing a username and password
# 2. Selecting one of the SSO providers to use for sign-in.
#
# The problem with this behavior was that a user who was given a Controlled Digital Lending (CDL)
# URL would see a username/password and likely attempt to authenticate with their CDL
# username/password (which was managed by the SSO provider).
#
# The end result is that the authentication page most likely would create confusion.
#
# With this function change, I'm setting things up such that when the application uses calls
# `new_user_session_path` we make a decision on what URL to resolve.
def deny_access_for_anonymous_user(exception, json_message)
session['user_return_to'] = request.url
respond_to do |wants|
wants.html do
path = if IdentityProvider.exists?
main_app.single_signon_index_path
else
main_app.new_user_session_path
end
redirect_to path, alert: exception.message
end
wants.json { render_json_response(response_type: :unauthorized, message: json_message) }
end
end
end

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