Re: [keycloak-dev] LDAP integration

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Burke" <bburke(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: keycloak-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > Sent: Friday, 14 March, 2014 2:12:20 PM > Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] LDAP integration > > Don't we need to have LDAP as a user store? Won't companies have a user > LDAP store they want to point Keycloak to? If you have an Auth SPI > only, then you'll still need to register the users with Keycloak. The idea with the authentication would be similar to social login. On first login a user would be created internally in Keycloak, and there would be a link to the user in LDAP. It would provide us with something relatively simple without the fuzz. Social login requires registration to be enabled for new users, but that shouldn't be required to create users that "links" to an LDAP store. We can even investigate allowing multiple authentication providers for a single realm. For example if a user exist in Keycloak you can check if there is a LDAP link, if there is authenticate with LDAP, otherwise with Keycloak. If no user exist, check with the other configured authentication providers if one exists. In the second round we can worry about syncing, or alternatively by using LDAP directly for users/role-mappings. I'm not 100% convinced, but I believe the syncing approach is the simpler and probably better solution to "federation".