[keycloak-dev] A newly added Hardcoded Role mapper ignores users that have already logged in before

Wed Sep 25 03:42:03 EDT 2019

Hi,

That is an interesting point. I checked some mappers:

-        AttributeToRoleMapper handles the update like the import with the exception that in case of an update, the role is deleted if the attribute is no longer present (I call this for now inverted logic).

-        ClaimToRoleMapper and ExternalKeycloakRoleToRoleMapper handle an update with the inverted logic only – so they don’t set but only delete the role.

-        HardcodeRoleMapper fully ignores updates whereas it could at least do it the same way as AttributeToRoleMapper.

-        UserAttributeMapper is even more complex…
So the currently used IdentityProviderMapper implementations are very inconsistent and hopefully documented and understood well for and by the end users.

All I am saying is that it will become a breaking change to globally define this behavior as there are nowadays several, conflicting modes implemented. Due to that I would like to emphasize that the flag introduction (“handleUpdateToo”) still seems as the solution with the lowest friction.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Frank Thiele

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Von: Stian Thorgersen <sthorger at redhat.com>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. September 2019 08:38
An: Marek Posolda <mposolda at redhat.com>
Cc: Schuster Sebastian (INST-CSS/BSV-OS2) <Sebastian.Schuster at bosch-si.com>; EXTERNAL Thiele Frank (TNG, INST-CSS/BSV-OS2) <external.Frank.Thiele at bosch-si.com>; keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
Betreff: Re: [keycloak-dev] A newly added Hardcoded Role mapper ignores users that have already logged in before

Adding config options on a single mappers is not really a great solution. We need to make sure there is a consistent approach throughout. We probably don't have consistent and predictable behaviour today, but I would rather not make it worse by introducing random config options on mappers.

Main question is if this should be controlled on individual mappers or if it should mainly be a config on the identity provider.

Having the config on the identity provider would make more sense as it would be simpler to configure and it would avoid corner cases.

There's probably at least 3 different modes for identity brokering that should be supported:

1) Import only - User is only imported if it doesn't exist. If user already exists nothing is updated.
2) Sync - Allow changes to the user within Keycloak, but also sync changes from external IdP
3) External - Do not allow any changes to the user within Keycloak as the user should be fully managed from the external IdP

Option 1 is trivial.

Option 2 can be very complicated. Take the example of the hardcoded role for instance. User first logs in, the role is added. An admin then removes the role from the user. User logs in again and the role is re-added. Same example can be applied to last name for instance. User logs in. 6 months later the user changes the last name in Keycloak account console, but then next day when they re-login the last name is changed back.

Option 3 is relatively trivial, but would need some tweaks within Keycloak. A user that is fully externally managed should not be able to use Keycloak account console and should be view-only in the admin console.

On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 at 22:21, Marek Posolda <mposolda at redhat.com<mailto:mposolda at redhat.com>> wrote:
Makes sense to me. From me +1 for this.

Marek

On 20. 09. 19 15:57, Schuster Sebastian (INST-CSS/BSV-OS2) wrote:
> I guess the point was just to add a configuration flag to the mapper enabling the update on existing users.
> If that flag is not there or set to false, the old behavior stays.
>
> Best regards,
> Sebastian
>
>
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>
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> Betreff: Re: [keycloak-dev] A newly added Hardcoded Role mapper ignores users that have already logged in before
>
> I'm afraid you've lost me on the last one as I'm not following ;)
>
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 16:17, EXTERNAL Thiele Frank (TNG, INST-CSS/BSV-OS2) <external.Frank.Thiele at bosch-si.com<mailto:external.Frank.Thiele at bosch-si.com>> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> What if I implement a newer version of the Hardcoded Role mapper that
>> has a (optional, as configuration migration case) flag to activate
>> update handling. So when the flag is set to false or not set at all
>> (migration case), then behavior is as of today. If the flag is set,
>> the import and update functions behave the same way.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards
>>
>>
>> *Frank Thiele *
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>> (INST-CSS/BSV-OS2)
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>> *Von:* Stian Thorgersen <sthorger at redhat.com<mailto:sthorger at redhat.com>>
>> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 19. September 2019 13:51
>> *An:* EXTERNAL Thiele Frank (TNG, INST-CSS/BSV-OS2) <
>> external.Frank.Thiele at bosch-si.com<mailto:external.Frank.Thiele at bosch-si.com>>
>> *Cc:* keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org<mailto:keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org>
>> *Betreff:* Re: [keycloak-dev] A newly added Hardcoded Role mapper
>> ignores users that have already logged in before
>>
>>
>>
>> If memory serves me correctly this was on purpose where the thinking 5
>> years ago was that users would be imported on first login, then
>> managed from Keycloak after that. That is not always the case though
>> and we should have some way of controlling if users updated on
>> subsequent logins and perhaps also be able to fine-tune what is updated.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 13:21, EXTERNAL Thiele Frank (TNG,
>> INST-CSS/BSV-OS2) <external.Frank.Thiele at bosch-si.com<mailto:external.Frank.Thiele at bosch-si.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> In our project, we use the "Hardcoded role" mapper within a configured
>> Identity Provider (also a Keycloak instance, in our case the same but
>> a different realm) to describe that each user logging in via Keycloak
>> shall be given a certain role.
>>
>> This works perfectly if the mapper is configured before the first
>> login of the user. The configured role is granted to the (cloned) user
>> when he logs in the first time via Keycloak.
>>
>> But when another "Hardcoded role" mapper is added to configure another
>> role, then the user is not given the other role when he logs in. Only
>> new users logging in the first time get both roles assigned.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is this on purpose or a bug?
>>
>>
>>
>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards
>>
>>
>>
>> Frank Thiele
>>
>>
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