[keycloak-dev] Support for SSO bridge with shared user base

[Bill Burke]

I'd rather have the appropriate SPIs be extended then have this feature 
native in keycloak as it seems very specific to your deployment.

BTW, why not just point the SAML website to Keycloak?  Keycloak supports 
SAML.

On 10/9/2015 5:39 AM, Vlastimil Elias wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I'd like to implement SSO bridge between Keycloak used for our website,
> and other SAML 2 based SSO server used by another website.
>
> Both SSO servers share common user base (user federation provider in
> keycloak against same user store as the SAML SSO server).
>
> What I want to achieve is that once user is logged in on other SAML SSO
> server and then comes to Keycloak site I'd like to login him there
> automatically.
>
> What I can do is to configure SAML Identity Provider in Keycloak and
> enable "Authenticate By Default" for it. But I think this will always
> lead to user creation conflict in Keycloak as we share user base. I have
> to somehow force this "SAML Identity Provider" in keycloak to directly
> use existing Keycloak users instead of creating new one and linking to them.
>
> Is this somehow achievable in Keycloak 1.5, eg. by development of some
> extension? From what I know I think it s not achievable and feature must
> be coded into keycloak core.
>
>
> And one other question ;-)
> When "Authenticate By Default" is used for some Identity Provider then I
> believe that Keycloak redirects user's browser to this provider in
> passive mode before showing own login page to get identity from it if
> any. But what happen if the provider is unreachable? In this case user
> finishes with erro page and is not able to login into Keycloak at all.
> Is Keycloak able to detect provider failure and stop redirecting user
> there?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Vlastimil
>

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