On 19.3.2015 21:09, Anton Hughes wrote:
Thank you Marek

To check that I understand this approach correctly, is the following a correct summary of how a federation provider works?

  1. existing user tries to login via Keycloak
  2. Keycloak checks if the user exists in the keycloak IDM. If user is not there then use federation provider
  3. the provider will get the user by email address or username, and return the User object.
  4. This user object can then be mapped and saved into keycloak. 
  5. Next time user tries to login user is retrieved from keycloak idm
Yes, Keycloak also verified during each authentication (or interaction with the UserModel) if user still exists in your backend and it's removed from Keycloak DB if not.

Normally user is synced to Keycloak DB after successful login (your step 4), but you can also sync all your users from your storage at once or setup periodic sync.

User password would be verified against your DB, but it is flexible enough, so for example if user change his password in Keycloak Account mgmt you can either save it to your backend or to keycloak DB etc.
Question - where is the federated provider deployed? Is it in our app, or installed into Keycloak? Or something else?
Installed into Keycloak. I would suggest to take a look at examples and try them out. This will give you more insight.

Marek

Thanks

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 8:03 PM, Marek Posolda <mposolda@redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,

it will be best if you write custom FederationProvider and point it to your database. See http://docs.jboss.org/keycloak/docs/1.1.0.Final/userguide/html/user_federation.html and examples in appliance-dist (Subdirectory examples/providers)

Marek


On 19.3.2015 19:58, Anton Hughes wrote:

Hello

Im currently investigating using Keycloak as a solution to manage users, as well as authentication and authorization.

Currently, we have a jboss Errai application, and have a relational database of users and their encrypted password.

Is there any tutorials, or advice, on how we would migrate our users to the Keycloak IDM? 

Thanks and regards
Anton


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