[keycloak-user] Authenticate user without using login page

[Bill Burke]

http://docs.jboss.org/keycloak/docs/1.0-beta-3/userguide/html/direct-access-grants.html

If you have to do it this way, please let us know why.  Maybe we can 
solve the issue within keycloak itself.

On 7/16/2014 3:35 PM, Rodrigo Sasaki wrote:
> Just for the sake of conversation, if I did want to handle my own login
> page, would there be a way for me to do it?
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Rodrigo Sasaki
> <rodrigopsasaki at gmail.com <mailto:rodrigopsasaki at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I don't want to miss out on all of that, which is why we're mostly
>     migrating everything to use keycloak that way.
>
>     It's just that we have cases that are so specific, that it would be
>     better to authenticate the user in a different manner, create the
>     user session and everything, without redirecting.
>
>     I'll have a look at that code. Thanks!
>
>
>     On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Bill Burke <bburke at redhat.com
>     <mailto:bburke at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>         If you want to handle your own login pages, IMO, you are missing
>         out on
>         a lot of Keycloak features.  Specifically:
>
>         * SSO
>         * forgot password
>         * admin forced credential reset/setup
>
>
>         Login pages can be styled however you like to look like your
>         application.
>
>         There is a REST api for obtaining an access token.  Here is an
>         example:
>
>         https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/blob/master/examples/demo-template/admin-access-app/src/main/java/org/keycloak/example/AdminClient.java
>
>         On 7/15/2014 12:36 PM, Rodrigo Sasaki wrote:
>          > Is there a way to authenticate the user without having to
>         input username
>          > and password on the login page?
>          >
>          > For example:
>          >
>          > Say there's a situation in my application where I request the
>         user for
>          > his username and password, and I wouldn't like to redirect
>         that to the
>          > keycloak login page to authenticate him, would there be a way
>         for me to
>          > do that?
>          >
>          > --
>          > Rodrigo Sasaki
>          >
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>     Rodrigo Sasaki
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> Rodrigo Sasaki

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