The Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence (CI CoE) Pilot project, in collaboration with Trusted CI, recently completed an identity and access management engagement with the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) to update the NEON Data Portal to use OpenID Connect for user authentication. A paper summarizing this engagement is available.
The goal of the CI CoE Pilot project is to develop a model for a CI CoE that facilitates community building and sharing, and applies knowledge of best practices and innovative solutions for NSF's major multi-user research facilities. One sub-component of the Pilot project is to gain experience with implementing identity management (IdM) solutions for facilities.
NEON was selected as the initial IdM engagee with the intent to assist them with moving the NEON Data Portal away from managing local user credentials and towards leveraging industry standards such as OpenID Connect (OIDC). The implementation involved transitioning to Auth0, which not only imported the existing database of Data Portal users, but also allowed users to log in with third-party OIDC Identity Providers (IdPs) Google and CILogon.
