[pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup/pwt 0/14] fix #5379: introduce default auth realm option

[Christoph Heiss]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 05:27:42PM GMT, Christoph Heiss wrote:
> Thanks for the review & testing!
>
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 11:23:55AM GMT, Lukas Wagner wrote:
> > [..]
> > I found that once you select PAM again and log in as root, the PAM realm will
> > be selected on next login again (even though 'save user' is not selected).
> > This seems to happen because the ext-pbs-pveloginrealm:"o%3Avalue%3Ds%253Apam"
> > key is set in local storage. If that one is cleared, it works again.
> > So it seems like we are interfering with the statefulness of the login widget.
> >
> > Could you check if you can reproduce that?
>
> Also, thanks for the investigation! I'll check if I can reproduce it,
> the fix for it seems to be doable in a sensible way by clearing the key.
>

Following up on this: PVE has the exact same behaviour. The login dialog
component (`Proxmox.form.RealmComboBox`, living in
proxmox-widget-toolkit) is in fact reused between both frontends.

PVE uses the key `ext-pveloginrealm` in local storage, PBS
`ext-pbs-pveloginrealm`.

So IMHO either we should keep the behaviour as-is or change it for both,
the latter preferably as a separate changeset.

I would even argue to keep the behaviour, since it makes sense to me -
if a user once logs in using a specific realm, he will probably want to
*always* log in with that realm.

What do you think?