Hi Thomas,
     When we started using keycloak for federated identity, we observed similar behavior but there is a work around to get away from this using mappers.
It works like a charm for us without any prefix.

MapperType : Username Template Importer
Template : ${NAMEID}


Best
Kamal




From: Thomas Raehalme <thomas.raehalme@aitiofinland.com>
To: keycloak-dev <keycloak-dev@lists.jboss.org>
Sent: Friday, January 8, 2016 6:32 AM
Subject: [keycloak-dev] Why the provider prefix in username?

Hi,

If I login to Keycloak using a federated identity such as Google, Keycloak inserts a prefix "google." to my username. 

Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't this kind of unnecessary when the email address is already a unique property?

Best regards,
Thomas

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