[keycloak-user] Login to Keycloak using API and create KeycloakPrincipal object

Stian Thorgersen sthorger at redhat.com
Thu Oct 13 02:11:16 EDT 2016


You need to do the redirect based authentication and not use direct grant
if you want an SSO session.

Why are you not just using the registration form on the Keycloak server? It
can be changed to match exactly what you need?

On 10 October 2016 at 15:30, Chris Savory <chris.savory at edlogics.com> wrote:

> I actually had a similar question for our register user workflow.  We are
> registering users on our site using our own custom registration form; in
> this flow we use the Admin client to create the user in keycloak.  Since
> the user just gave us their un/pw it doesn’t make sense for us to send them
> over to Keycloak to login, but rather we would like to passively log them
> in either via the backend or via some ajax call.
>
> I know I can get a token if I do something like this, but I’m not sure if
> it’s going to drop all the right cookies back to the user’s browser to
> consider them logged in across all the clients:
>
> curl   -d "client_id=admin-cli"   -d "username=chris.savory at edlogics.com"
>  -d "password=password"   -d "grant_type=password"
>  "<domain>/auth/realms/<realm>/protocol/openid-connect/token"
>
> --
>
> On 10/10/16, 3:23 AM, "keycloak-user-bounces at lists.jboss.org on behalf of
> Stian Thorgersen" <keycloak-user-bounces at lists.jboss.org on behalf of
> sthorger at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>     By using token directly I assume you mean exchanging username/password
> for
>     a token directly. I'd strongly recommend against this and it's not
>     something our adapters support directly.
>
>     On 4 October 2016 at 15:36, Mariusz Chruscielewski - Info.nl <
>     mariusz at info.nl> wrote:
>
>     > Hi. We are using Keycloak Tomcat Adapter to secure our webapp, after
> we
>     > access protected resource we are redirected to keycloak and after
> login we
>     > go back to our app. After that, we can get KeycloakPrincipal object
> from
>     > web context (request).
>     >
>     > Is there a way to create / get this object without using Tomcat
> Adapter ?
>     > We want to make API call (like http://keycloak/auth/realms/
>     > vi/protocol/openid-connect/token) and get (or create manually) this
>     > object using AccessTokenResponse (or any other object we can get
> from API).
>     >
>     > Ultimate goal is to login to keycloak like adapter does, but
> directly from
>     > Java, without any interaction from user on keycloak forms.
>     >
>     > Is it even possible?
>     >
>     > Kind Regards,
>     >
>     > Mariusz Chruscielewski
>     >
>     >
>     >
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