[keycloak-user] User-Federation

Scott Rossillo srossillo at smartling.com
Thu Feb 11 11:51:54 EST 2016


Hi,

The example omits securing the endpoints for simplicity demonstrating the concepts. I’d suggest using some type of security though on the legacy system if the endpoints are publicly accessible though.

Best,
Scott

Scott Rossillo
Smartling | Senior Software Engineer
srossillo at smartling.com

> On Feb 11, 2016, at 9:35 AM, Reed Lewis <RLewis at carbonite.com> wrote:
> 
> The endpoint that is used by the federation provider is only called from Keycloak, so you can run it on localhost on the keycloak machine if that is going to work for you.
> 
> OTOH, if you need to run it on a different machine, you can lock down the endpoint to only be accessible from the Keycloak server.
> 
> End users never call the endpoint I documented.
> 
> Reed
> 
> From: <darkness.renann at gmail.com <mailto:darkness.renann at gmail.com>> on behalf of Renann Prado <prado.renann at gmail.com <mailto:prado.renann at gmail.com>>
> Date: Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 8:17 AM
> To: Reed Lewis <RLewis at carbonite.com <mailto:RLewis at carbonite.com>>
> Cc: "keycloak-user at lists.jboss.org <mailto:keycloak-user at lists.jboss.org>" <keycloak-user at lists.jboss.org <mailto:keycloak-user at lists.jboss.org>>, Stuart Jacobs <stuart.jacobs at symbiotics.co.za <mailto:stuart.jacobs at symbiotics.co.za>>
> Subject: Re: [keycloak-user] User-Federation
> 
> Everyone*
> 
> On Feb 11, 2016 11:16, "Renann Prado" <prado.renann at gmail.com <mailto:prado.renann at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Is there any recommended way to make sure these endpoints won't be spammed by an attacker? Looks like these endpoints need to be open to anyone.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> On Feb 3, 2016 11:18, "Reed Lewis" <RLewis at carbonite.com <mailto:RLewis at carbonite.com>> wrote:
> If you use the federation provider listed here:
> 
> [0]: http://tech.smartling.com/migrate-to-keycloak-with-zero-downtime/ <http://tech.smartling.com/migrate-to-keycloak-with-zero-downtime/>
> [1]: https://github.com/Smartling/keycloak-user-migration-provider <https://github.com/Smartling/keycloak-user-migration-provider>
> 
> You can specify a URL that will be called when a user needs to be validated.
> 
> There are three requests that need to be implemented in your sever.
> 
> GET <baseURL>/api/users/<username>/
> If the user exists, it should return a 200 with a json object with the return type “application/json” with the following fields:
> username
> email
> emailVerified
> firstName
> lastName
> roles [“user”]
> 
> If the user does not exist, return a 404 
> 
> HEAD <baseURL>/api/users/<username>/
> Always return 200
> 
> POST <baseURL>/api/users/<username>/
> The password is posted to you in a json object.
> Return 200 if the password is OK, 401 if not.  In both cases return no data.
> 
> I wrote a small python module which implements these methods which works quite well.
> 
> Reed
> 
> From: <keycloak-user-bounces at lists.jboss.org <mailto:keycloak-user-bounces at lists.jboss.org>> on behalf of Stuart Jacobs <stuart.jacobs at symbiotics.co.za <mailto:stuart.jacobs at symbiotics.co.za>>
> Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 2:40 AM
> To: "keycloak-user at lists.jboss.org <mailto:keycloak-user at lists.jboss.org>" <keycloak-user at lists.jboss.org <mailto:keycloak-user at lists.jboss.org>>
> Subject: [keycloak-user] User-Federation
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I have an application that runs on a postgresql database, keycloak has been configured and has created all the required tables/columns in my schema using liquibase on start up of the keycloak server.
> 
> I need to authenticate users using the projects existing user table obtaining the username and password from this table.
> 
> I have had a look at the federation provider project under the example projects but this still eludes me as to how I change the keycloak mapping to use my own tables in postgress?
> 
> Can someone please point me in the right direction or if someone has implemented such a solution please share how you have done it?
> 
> Thanks everyone. 
> 
>   Regards,
>   Stuart Jacobs
> 
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