[keycloak-user] LDAP with Kerberos, login with different user

Marek Posolda mposolda at redhat.com
Thu Jul 23 07:33:15 EDT 2015


Ah, Ok. So it's about admin users. Also note that in latest 1.4 version 
we will have new "impersonation" feature, which allows admin to 
temporarily login on behalf of any other user. Isn't this even better 
for your usecase?

Marek

On 23.7.2015 08:41, Michael Gerber wrote:
> Hi, yes something like that would be great.
> Because our application admins are no tech guys, so it would be nice 
> to offer an easy solution to them ;)
>
> Am 23. Juli 2015 um 08:35 schrieb Marek Posolda <mposolda at redhat.com>:
>
>> Maybe we can have special request parameter, which will be send from 
>> application to login screen. The parameter will contain list of 
>> authentication mechanisms, which you want to skip for this login. 
>> Something like "skipAuthType=cookie,kerberos" . The list of skipped 
>> alternative mechanisms will be saved in ClientSession, so 
>> authentication SPI can deal with it.
>>
>> Not sure if it makes sense to add support into adapter, but maybe 
>> something basic (like we have for parameters "login_hint" or 
>> "kc_idp_hint" in keycloak.js) can be added as well?
>>
>> Marek
>>
>> On 23.7.2015 08:26, Marek Posolda wrote:
>>> Do you want that for normal users or just for admin users? Just 
>>> trying to understand the usecase. Because AFAIK the point of 
>>> kerberos is, that you login into the desktop and then you're 
>>> automatically logged into integrated web applications without need 
>>> to deal with any login screens and username/password. When user has 
>>> just one keycloak account corresponding to his kerberos ticket, then 
>>> why he need to login as different user?
>>>
>>> I can understand the usecase for admin, when you want to login as 
>>> different user for testing purpose etc. For this, isn't it possible 
>>> in windows to do something like "kdestroy" to be able to login 
>>> without kerberos?
>>>
>>> Marek
>>>
>>> On 23.7.2015 07:44, Michael Gerber wrote:
>>>> Isn't it possible to create a cookie or add an url parameter after 
>>>> the logout, so the user is not logged in automatically?
>>>>
>>>> It's crucial for us to be able to log in as a different user, 
>>>> otherwise we can not use kerberos at all :(
>>>>
>>>> Michael
>>>>
>>>> Am 22. Juli 2015 um 23:06 schrieb Marek Posolda <mposolda at redhat.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> I don't think it's doable. Kerberos is kind of desktop login and 
>>>>> logout from the web application won't destroy the kerberos ticket 
>>>>> - similarly like it can't logout your laptop/desktop session. So 
>>>>> when you visit the secured application next time, you are 
>>>>> automatically logged into Keycloak through SPNEGO due to the 
>>>>> Kerberos ticket.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hence you need to remove kerberos ticket manually (For example 
>>>>> "kdestroy" works on Linux, but I guess you're using Windows + 
>>>>> ActiveDirectory? ) and then you will be able to see keycloak login 
>>>>> screen and login as different user.
>>>>>
>>>>> Marek
>>>>>
>>>>> On 22.7.2015 15:38, Michael Gerber wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I use LDAP with Kerberos and would like to logout and login again 
>>>>>> with a different user (no kerberos login, just keycloak username 
>>>>>> and password dialog).
>>>>>> Is that possible?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cheers
>>>>>> Michael
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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