From 747f4776297282bbc60472177ba2069b2d8c72f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frederick Muriuki Muriithi
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 14:32:20 +0300
Subject: Topics: Add authetication implementation concerns

* topics/authentication/authentication-authorisation-design.gmi
---
 topics/authentication/authentication-authorisation-design.gmi | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'topics/authentication/authentication-authorisation-design.gmi')

diff --git a/topics/authentication/authentication-authorisation-design.gmi b/topics/authentication/authentication-authorisation-design.gmi
index 0b7c451..65c6b28 100644
--- a/topics/authentication/authentication-authorisation-design.gmi
+++ b/topics/authentication/authentication-authorisation-design.gmi
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ The system will, in the near future, allow user authentication from external ser
 * GeneNetwork uses the data from the service to identify the relevant local user details
 * GeneNetwork uses local user details to create new session
 
+### Implementation Concerns
+
+The passwords (and other authentication tokens) should be in a separate database table from the unifying users table. This should provide for a somewhat unifying table for the different authentication schemes that will be provided by the system.
+
 ### WONTFIX
 
 The following features will not be considered:
-- 
cgit v1.2.3