[keycloak-dev] offline access

[Bill Burke]

On 4/9/2015 8:01 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Marek Posolda" <mposolda at redhat.com>
>> To: "Stian Thorgersen" <stian at redhat.com>, "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
>> Cc: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
>> Sent: Friday, 3 April, 2015 4:02:04 PM
>> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] offline access
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>> Maybe we should use name "offline tokens" to not confuse them with
>> classic "refresh tokens" ? Refresh tokens are used to refresh access
>> token and they are always tight to user session, when "offline tokens"
>> are not tight to user session.
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> I don't think there's anything in OpenID Connect that ties a refresh token to a user session, that's just what we've done.
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> See http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#OfflineAccess
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That's not the way I read it.  There wouldn't be a section within OIDC 
about offline access if the refresh token wasn't assumed to be a part of 
a session.  IMO, "offline" is really just a persisted user/client 
session.  It is governed by the same exact rules as regular user 
sessions.  A client just needs permission to do it.   You would need to 
store the same exact metadata for "offline" sessions as you would for 
"online" ones.  What additional information is needed for "offline"? 
Again, this boils down in my opinion to just the current user session 
being cloned into a persisted "offline" session.

Admin console screens should be the same for "offline" and user 
sessions.  Main realm session screen has list of applications and the 
number of their online and offline sessions.  Same with the 
application's session page.

The user session page has a list of sessions with an "offline" column 
checked on or off.  This is the same for user account page.



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