Basic auth messaging #294
Basic auth messaging #294
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Co-authored-by: Aaron Jacobs <[email protected]>
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| Authentication works a little differently depending on the provider. A few popular ones (including OpenAI and Anthropic) require you to obtain an API key. We recommend you save it in an environment variable rather than using it directly in your code, and if you deploy an app or report that uses ellmer to another system, you'll need to ensure that this environment variable is available there, too. | ||
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| ellmer also automatically detects many of the OAuth or IAM-based credentials used by the big cloud providers (currently `chat_azure()`, `chat_bedrock()`, `chat_databricks()`, `chat_snowflake()`). That includes credentials for these platforms managed by Posit Workbench and Posit Connect. |
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Overall, this seems like a big improvement, thanks! I think the bit that we're missing is some brief note about how to use viewer based auth on connect. Maybe something like:
Posit connect also supports viewer-based auth, where the credential of the person using the app are used. To opt-in to this, you need to ...
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I guess for Connect, it's actually opt-out? i.e. if you don't want to use viewer-based auth, you need to set up a service account and use that? Do we have advice on that?
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Or do you need to do something on the server side too? so we should just link to https://docs.posit.co/connect/user/oauth-integrations/#adding-oauth-integrations-to-deployed-content ?
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For now, I'll just link. We can improve the linked docs if needed.
Fixes #291
@atheriel this is just a first pass. Please let me know what you think is missing or incorrect