[keycloak-user] Using Keycloak admin client on a web browser

Vikram Eswar vikram.eswar at gmail.com
Tue Dec 4 05:33:52 EST 2018


Thanks a lot Geoffrey !
I had the same in mind, but was not sure.

Regards,
Vikram

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 10:52 AM Geoffrey Cleaves <geoff at opticks.io> wrote:

> Any user agent that can call a REST API can perform admin tasks. See this
> documentation: https://www.keycloak.org/docs-api/4.6/rest-api/index.html
>
> Since the admin password would be plainly visible in the HTML code
> executed by the web browser, and not knowing more about your architecture,
> this sounds like an extremely bad idea.
>
> Instead, I believe your web browser should communicate with your own
> backend, and your backend should perform the admin tasks. This way the
> admin password will not be visible in the HTML code.
>
> Regards,
> Geoffrey Cleaves
>
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 10:41, Vikram Eswar <vikram.eswar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> is it possible to implement a keycloak admin client to add / delete/
>> update
>> users from a web browser or is it just available for node js ? If it is
>> possible with a browser, could someone please give me some support on how
>> to do that ?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vikram
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