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Re:GitHub is now free for teams by tptacek on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @01:29PM (#22868800)
You said "OAuth only does authz and must be combined with other technologies to get authn"; obviously, that's not true, in the sense that you can simply use OIDC --- a dialect of OAuth --- to get both.

Since OIDC is better than SAML, which is probably the scariest security standard on the Internet, I think it's worth being clear to people that OIDC/OAuth is viable.

The SAML authz story, for what it's worth, is pretty shady.

Re:GitHub is now free for teams by kube-system on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @01:41PM (#22868952)
For sure. I never said SAML was any good -- I said I found it to be simpler. :)
Re:GitHub is now free for teams by tptacek on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @01:45PM (#22869002)
For developers, they're both just libraries. As protocols to implement, SAML is drastically harder.