[aerogear-dev] Keycloak user/roles management

Mon May 26 10:46:01 EDT 2014

On 2014-05-26, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Bruno Oliveira <bruno at abstractj.org> wrote:
>
> > On 2014-05-26, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Bruno Oliveira <bruno at abstractj.org>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Good morning peeps, after the latest change[1] correct me if I'm
> > wrong. But
> > > > I think KC and UPS will do pretty much what we need.
> > > >
> > > > We have a push admin and the super user on KC side enabled. Let me know
> > > > if that is what you need and I will take a look at viewer role.
> > > >
> > >
> > > One thing that I noticed: when I login as 'admin', I don't see the
> > > applications created by 'user'
> > > I think with that change, the 'admin' is the overall Keycloak-Admin.
> >
> > With the recent changes we have 2 admins:
> >
> > - KC admin
> > - UPS admin
> >
> > I think the UPS admin should have the visibility of all applications
> > created, right? I will look at this.
> >
>
> * super-user: in charge of managing the UPS realm (including users); can
> see _ALL_ push applications  (that's the 'admin' in Sebi's older gist)
> * PushAdmin: Someone that can manage applications and variants, but is not
> able to add new users; he also sees only his applications/variants etc
> (that's the 'developer' in sebisolder  gist)

You already said it in the previous e-mail, not necessary to say it
again. I think the point of confusion here is:

KC admin can't see your application/variants or whatever you want,
because it doesn't belong to KC. If you look at
http://docs.jboss.org/keycloak/docs/1.0-alpha-3/userguide/html_single/index.html#d4e311,
you will notice that KC is very good on managing application, but knows
nothing about UPS, which is correct.

>From my understanding we have 2 admins: KC and UPS. So when you say
super user, I can see into this way:

- super user: KC admin to manage realms, configurations, revoke clients,
  manage users...etc. 0 visibility of UPS domain, into other words this
  admin can't manage variants or applications.

- admin: UPS admin. This user can't manage realms, configuration, revoke
  clients, manage users...etc. But has full visibility of UPS domain,
  into other words manage variants or applications etc.

>
>
>
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > I had a chat w/ Stian in the past, for the above mentioned
> > > "super-user" (which is leveraging the Keycloak realm) Stian and I were
> > > thinking of a "Super User", that simply has not all permissions. For
> > > instance, it would have:
> > > * AdminRoles.VIEW_USERS
> > > * AdminRoles.MANAGE_USERS
> > >
> > > But it would not have the "AdminRoles.ADMIN" role. As we don't need to
> > have
> > > that guy/super-user being able to create realms or other applications,
> > just
> > > the "user access" items.
> > >
> > > I guess that's why we did see the 'remove()' before
> >
> > I understand the permission scope restriction for KC admin
> > (aka super-user). But if we remove the admin, how could you login to manage
> > users/roles?
> >
>
> The "super-admin" would be still able to manage the realm, but he would be
> no longer a 'real' KC admin, by removing the 'AdminRoles.ADMIN' role,
> that's what Stian and I were talking in the past.
> Perhaps he can say a bit more

Change permissions, I understand. But I don't understand why we need to
remove the user. Either way I will talk with Stian, thank you.

>
>
>
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> >
> > >
> > > -Matthias
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > [1] -
> > > >
> > > >
> > https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-unifiedpush-server/commit/3e118b1c758493942ef2a00e1541302a03e5519c
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 2014-05-21, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
> > > > > Just a thought... regarding those two roles 'PushAdmin' and
> > 'Super-User',
> > > > > IMO the Super-user should be able to see all apps (and their
> > variants,
> > > > > including registered devices).
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Bruno Oliveira <bruno at abstractj.org
> > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Thank you Matthias, I will look at it and return back with more
> > > > > > questions if necessary.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 2014-05-21, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
> > > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > yes - the handling is done by Keycloak itself; Last time we
> > looked at
> > > > > > user
> > > > > > > management, we had the following in terms of roles:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > https://gist.github.com/sebastienblanc/6547605
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Not sure the names of these roles are great.... let's see
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Basically I think the role definition in the gist still addresses
> > > > most of
> > > > > > > what we want to archive:
> > > > > > > * super-user: in charge of managing the UPS realm (including
> > users);
> > > > can
> > > > > > > see _ALL_ push applications  (that's the admin in Sebi's gist)
> > > > > > > * PushAdmin: Someone that can manage applications and variants,
> > but
> > > > is
> > > > > > not
> > > > > > > able to add new users; he also sees only his
> > applications/variants
> > > > etc
> > > > > > > (that's the developer in sebis gist)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > The gist also contains a 'Viewer' role - At this point I am not
> > sure
> > > > we
> > > > > > do
> > > > > > > really need this. My impression is that if we have PushAdmins
> > for our
> > > > > > 1.0.0
> > > > > > > community release that will be enough.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > -Matthias
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Bruno Oliveira <
> > > > bruno at abstractj.org
> > > > > > >wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Good morning peeps,
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Before I jump in https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-639. I
> > > > would
> > > > > > > > like to understand what do you guys want say with this issue.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Currently Keycloak already has its own user/roles managements.
> > > > What do
> > > > > > > > you guys are looking for? Any specific requirements?
> > > > > > > >
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