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docs: update oidc chapter to explain trust anchors
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Motivation:

Issue #7553 describes how it's currently undocumented that the OIDC
plugin uses Java's built-in trust store.

Modification:

Document behaviour

Result:

Admins may have a better understanding of how to configure their dCache.

Target: master
Requires-notes: no
Requires-book: yes
Request: 9.2
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paulmillar committed Apr 21, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -227,6 +227,13 @@ will use offline verification; otherwise, the token is sent to the
userinfo endpoint. dCache will cache the response. This behaviour
may be adjusted.

Please note that the OIDC plugin uses Java's built-in trust store
to verify the certificate presented by the issuer when making
TLS-encrypted HTTP requests (https://...). Most issuers use
certificates issued by a CA/B-accredited certificate authority, and
most distributions of Java provide CA/B as a default list of
trusted certificate authorities.

##### Obtaining OIDC information

The access token represents a logged in user; however, dCache needs to
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