[keycloak-user] Authenticate user without using login page

[Stian Thorgersen]

We could add support for login_hint query param so you can have the username/email field on the login form pre-filled for the user, so once a user has to authenticate you redirect to login on KC and all they would have to do is enter their password.

If you bypass the login forms you'd loose SSO, multi-factor support, required actions, recover password, etc, etc, etc..

As Bill mentioned we provide very flexible login forms that can be templated using either just css or even FreeMarker templates if you need a lot of customization, so you should be able to make the login form integrate well with your website.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rodrigo Sasaki" <rodrigopsasaki at gmail.com>
> To: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> Cc: keycloak-user at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Thursday, 17 July, 2014 6:52:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [keycloak-user] Authenticate user without using login page
> 
> You think there could be a way to do this within keycloak itself?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Rodrigo Sasaki < rodrigopsasaki at gmail.com >
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I'll give you an example:
> 
> We have a situation in our website where we only ask for the user's e-mail,
> and he can go on with the flow.
> 
> On a determined step of the flow, if we identify that this is an e-mail that
> we already have in our user database, we ask him for his password,
> authenticate him, and let him go on, if this e-mail is new, we redirect him
> to a page where he can register himself, and after that continue on.
> 
> On this specific case and others, we wouldn't like to have to redirect him to
> keycloak, because that would interrupt the flow that we designed.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Bill Burke < bburke at redhat.com > wrote:
> 
> 
> http://docs.jboss.org/ keycloak/docs/1.0-beta-3/
> userguide/html/direct-access- grants.html
> 
> If you have to do it this way, please let us know why. Maybe we can solve the
> issue within keycloak itself.
> 
> 
> On 7/16/2014 3:35 PM, Rodrigo Sasaki wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Just for the sake of conversation, if I did want to handle my own login
> page, would there be a way for me to do it?
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Rodrigo Sasaki
> < rodrigopsasaki at gmail.com <mailto: rodrigopsasaki at gmail. com >> wrote:
> 
> I don't want to miss out on all of that, which is why we're mostly
> migrating everything to use keycloak that way.
> 
> It's just that we have cases that are so specific, that it would be
> better to authenticate the user in a different manner, create the
> user session and everything, without redirecting.
> 
> I'll have a look at that code. Thanks!
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Bill Burke < bburke at redhat.com
> <mailto: bburke at redhat.com >> wrote:
> 
> If you want to handle your own login pages, IMO, you are missing
> out on
> a lot of Keycloak features. Specifically:
> 
> * SSO
> * forgot password
> * admin forced credential reset/setup
> 
> 
> Login pages can be styled however you like to look like your
> application.
> 
> There is a REST api for obtaining an access token. Here is an
> example:
> 
> https://github.com/keycloak/ keycloak/blob/master/examples/
> demo-template/admin-access- app/src/main/java/org/
> keycloak/example/AdminClient. java
> 
> On 7/15/2014 12:36 PM, Rodrigo Sasaki wrote:
> > Is there a way to authenticate the user without having to
> input username
> > and password on the login page?
> > 
> > For example:
> > 
> > Say there's a situation in my application where I request the
> user for
> > his username and password, and I wouldn't like to redirect
> that to the
> > keycloak login page to authenticate him, would there be a way
> for me to
> > do that?
> > 
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