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MSC1961: Integration manager authentication APIs #1961

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# MSC1961: Integration manager authentication

A set of common APIs needs to be defined for clients to be able to interact with an integration
manager. This proposal covers the authentication portion of that API.


## Proposal

All specified APIs (except `/register`) will take an `Authorization` header with a `Bearer` token returned
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from a call to `/register`. This token is used to authorize the request and to identify who is making the
request. The token may also be specified as the `access_token` query string parameter, similar to the
Client-Server API.

#### POST `/_matrix/integrations/v1/account/register`

Exchanges an OpenID object for a token which can be used to authorize future requests to the manager.

Request body is an OpenID object as returned by `/_matrix/client/r0/user/:userId/openid/request_token`.

Response is:
```json
{
"token": "OpaqueString"
}
```

The token should consist of URL-safe base64 characters. Integration managers should be careful to validate
the OpenID object by ensuring the `/_matrix/federation/v1/openid/userinfo` response has a `sub` which belongs
to the `matrix_server_name` provided in the original OpenID object.

Applications which register for a token are responsible for tracking which integration manager they are for.
This can usually be done by tracking the hostname of the integration manager and matching a token with it.

#### GET `/_matrix/integrations/v1/account`

Gets information about the token's owner, such as the user ID for which it belongs.

Besides a token, no other information is required for the request.

Response is:
```json
{
"user_id": "@alice:example.org"
}
```

The `user_id` is the user ID which was represented in the OpenID object provided to `/register`. Integration
managers may be interested in also supplying information about the user's credit balance for paid integrations
here. Preferably, custom information is stored under a namespaced key like so:
```json
{
"user_id": "@alice:example.org",
"org.example.paid.integrations": {
"credit": 20000
}
}
```

#### POST `/_matrix/integrations/v1/account/logout`

Logs the token out, rendering it useless for future requests.
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Should this say that all tokens associated with the user should be logged out, not just the token this request was made with?

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nope, just the token that was requested. This MSC does not propose an equivalent for /logout/all

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I guess the follow-up question is then; should IM's have a /account/deactivate? When a user deactivates their account, it would be good for clients to pass that information to the IM, to tell it that this user will no longer exist and that all possible tokens and user information should be deleted. Or should this be a different MSC?

Pinging @lampholder for the privacy side re IM's.

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I'd make that a separate MSC. I'm trying to keep these integration manager MSCs tightly scoped to avoid creeping features, given they are all trying to introduce a whole new API surface. This particular MSC is scoped to just authentication: deactivation is a feature which affects authentication but is not required for authentication. For instance, an integration manager could just delete everything after the last token is logged out. Similarly, there is no API for listing how many tokens you have assigned to you (and logging them out).


Request body is an empty object. Response body is also an empty object if successful.


## Security considerations

Clients should be sure to call `/logout` where possible when the user is logging out or no longer needs access
to a given manager. Clients should additionally be cautious about which managers they register for tokens with,
as some integration managers may be untrusted.