[keycloak-user] External Source of Truth for Federated Identities (Social Auth)

Josh Cain josh.cain at redhat.com
Thu Aug 4 09:59:10 EDT 2016


Not 100% sure what that question is asking; I'd like to provide social auth
credential -> Keycloak UserModel associations using another source than the
Keycloak database.

Josh Cain | Software Applications Engineer
*Identity and Access Management*
*Red Hat*
+1 843-737-1735

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Bill Burke <bburke at redhat.com> wrote:

> So you basically want to choose which provider a social login (brokered
> login) gets imported into?
>
> On 8/4/16 9:32 AM, Josh Cain wrote:
>
> We've got social auth data already in a data store, and other
> applications/enclaves also use that data store, so we'd like to keep it as
> a single source of truth (rather than point additional applications to the
> KC database, or require users to link the same account manually again).
>
> Maybe in pictures would help.  The diagram below would give a high-level
> understanding of how the current user search works with federation
> providers:
>
>> Contrast this with the current social auth user lookup process like this
> (example using Github, but any social auth provider really):
>
>
>> When the IDP swaps the auth code for the access token and is able to view
> the user's third party information (userId, name, etc), this information is
> referenced against the Keycloak database *only*.  I'd ideally like to be
> able to consult an external lookup in order to see if something else was
> capable of associating this third party information with a Keycloak
> UserModel.  I was wondering if a flow similar to the user's federation
> provider flow would be possible - something like this:
>
>
>> Would extending Keycloak to include and SPI for this be an option?
> Thoughts?
>
> I looked at simply altering/delegating one of the existing UserProvider
> implementations, but it just feels wrong.
>
>
> Josh Cain | Software Applications Engineer
> *Identity and Access Management*
> *Red Hat*
> +1 843-737-1735
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Bill Burke <bburke at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Huh?  I don't understand.
>>
>> On 8/3/16 8:19 PM, Josh Cain wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm in a situation in which I need to consult an external source of truth
>> in order to pull social auth credentials (outside the Keycloak database).
>> I'd ideally like something functionally equivalent to the
>> UserFederationProvider, in which another source outside the user store is
>> consulted for this information.  Is anything like that currently supported?
>>
>> Josh Cain | Software Applications Engineer
>> *Identity and Access Management*
>> *Red Hat*
>> +1 843-737-1735
>>
>>
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