[keycloak-user] [EXTERNAL] Re: how to implement SSO among services with Keycloak

[Bill Burke]

The token will expire.  There's been talk of providing an API to turn a 
token into a refresh token.  Haven't fully thought through the security 
implications yet though.

On 2/16/2015 10:00 AM, Kevin Chen wrote:
> Thanks Bill.
>
> Will the token expire? If so how to deal with it in the following situation:
> Service 1 in Jboss1 got a token based on the user login(it will have username/password information), then it will connect to Service 2 on JBOSS 2 with the token, The Service 2 will then connect to Service 3 in JBOSS 3. If the token expired, how can Service 2 to refresh it.
>
> Thanks
> Kevin
>
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> The demo app shows how this is done:
>
> 1. visit customer portal
> 2. customer portal initiates a login
> 3. customer portal receives a token
> 4. customer uses token to make secure REST invocation to another database service.
>
> On 2/13/2015 5:33 AM, Marek Posolda wrote:
>> Keycloak can serve this use-case pretty well. Once you authenticate
>> application1 with Keycloak, you will receive accessToken for this
>> application. This accessToken can then be used to invoke other HTTP
>> services (like "application2") and retrieve data from them. You just
>> need to send the obtained accessToken in Authorization header in
>> format like "Authorization: Bearer your-token".
>>
>> Also if your application "application2" is used just as "container of
>> REST data" for other applications and never accessed directly by user
>> from his browser, you can configure at as "bearer-only" in keycloak
>> admin console and in keycloak.json of this application.
>>
>> We have examples exactly for this usecase: "customer-service" uses
>> accessToken to invoke bearer-only application "database-service" and
>> obtain data from it. See code here:
>> https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/blob/master/examples/demo-templat
>> e/customer-app/src/main/java/org/keycloak/example/CustomerDatabaseClie
>> nt.java#L56
>>
>>
>> Marek
>>
>> On 12.2.2015 21:24, Kevin Chen wrote:
>>> In our environment, we will have multiple JBOSS instance that will host different services, they will use the same Keycloak server for authentication.
>>>
>>> One of the requirement for us is once an user is authenticated with one service, and if that service need invoke another service running in a different JBOSS instance, user should not be asked to logged in again.
>>> How can we obtain a new token and pass it to the next hop?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Kevin
>>>
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