[keycloak-dev] Feedback on Oauth Clients

[Stian Thorgersen]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Thursday, 3 October, 2013 2:59:15 PM
> Subject: [keycloak-dev] Feedback on Oauth Clients
> 
> I need some feedback on how to handle OAuth Clients.  OAuth clients are
> like Applications in that Keycloak is used to log in, but OAuth clients
> are required to be forwarded through the OAuth Grant Page.  Users must
> directly grant permission to the OAuth client to access stuff.  OAuth
> clients will also not be hooked into Single Logout or the session
> management facilities I hope to incorporate into Keycloak.  OAuth
> clients will also not have roles associated with them.
> 
> The way google does it is that they require you to login using your
> Google account, then you create applications within their cloud service
> app.  Applications get their own unique client-id and password and you
> then assign permissions to this application.
> 
> I was thinking we should do something similar for Keycloak.
> 
> For our first release, we'll have a specific Admin UI in which you can
> create OAuth clients in much the same way you create applications.
> 
> For phase 2, I was thinking that the user account management would be
> expanded to have an option (if allowed by the realm) for creating and
> registering an OAuth client.  The user would then have a client-id
> generated for them and they would have to set up credentials for this
> client-id.

I think this should be part of the admin console, not the account management. A realm should have an option to enable "user-defined applications" or whatever you'd call them. I also think that users should have a roles associated with them to be allowed to login to the admin console + to create applications.

When a realm user logs in to the admin console he should be able to create applications under the realm, but not to change any realm configurations, nor create new realms, etc.. Applications created by such users should be "OAuth Client", not "Keycloak Applications", so the grant page would pop-up on login.

In fact a realm user should be able to login to the admin console and perform any operation the user has been given access to do?

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