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SEC-2516: Hardening Authentication Controls
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Description
Matt Konda (Migrated from SEC-2516) said:
Provide capability and reference documentation for setting up the following features related to authentication (extending slightly on existing Spring security capabilities):
- Configurable lockout after N failed attempts
- Auto-unlock after a period of M minutes or via email
- Password reset flow (token + time limit)
- Temporary access pending email confirmation flow (time limited access until email link with token followed)
- Configurable password complexity enforcement
- Notification of password change (configurable to send email)
- Filter to prevent multiple concurrent sessions with the same login
- Support for multi-factor authentication
Idea would be to put each of these as a separate story that is part of this epic.
Inspired by:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Authentication_Cheat_Sheet
https://github.com/plataformatec/devise
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 splitting the listed authentication controls into separate stories, as the issue suggests, and review the existing Spring Security capabilities. Use the linked OWASP Authentication Cheat Sheet and Devise project as references. Each story is done when its capability and corresponding reference documentation have defined scope and acceptance criteria.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- authentication, documentation, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100