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Support Disabling MFA when the User has a Specified Authority
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status: waiting-for-triage
type: enhancement
- Dominant language
- Java
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Description
This can be useful if a particular factor or type of user should not have MFA enabled. For example, if a bearer token is used or a passkey is used, that might be enough to not require multiple factors
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating Spring Security's MFA enforcement and authority evaluation entry points, then review how an authority or factor could affect the requirement. The change is complete when a specified authority or eligible factor can disable MFA as described, with the behavior and configuration clearly covered by tests.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java, spring
- Domain
- authentication, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100