[keycloak-user] Keycloak evaluation

[Hynek Mlnarik]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Gaétan Collaud <gaetancollaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to keycloak but I started developing some custom "extensions" so I
> may be able to answer you.
>
> 1. I don't think this is out of the box, but you can develop a custom
> "Authenticator" to login using a token and include it in email. I've done
> it for our company (the token part, not the email).

Since Keycloak 3.2.0, you can create custom action token and its
handler that would login the user. You can check documentation [1] and
quickstarts [2] for further info.

[1] https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak-documentation/blob/master/server_development/topics/action-token-spi.adoc
[2] https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak-quickstarts/tree/master/action-token-authenticator

>
> 2. I don't thing the goal of keycloak is to send communications to users,
> so it may not be the best solution. I think it's best to export the users
> to a mailing list system. If you really want to use keycloak you cant can
> develop your own API and use the provider EmailTemplateProvider.class to
> send emails. It's also easy to get the list of users using the
> UserStorageProvider.
>
> Hope it can help
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gaétan
>
> Le mer. 16 août 2017 à 11:33, Krishna Kuntala <kuntalakrishna at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are evaluating Keycloak product for our Identity management solution.
>> Need to understand whether Keycloak supports below features:
>>
>> 1. Send "magic link" with verification email to let the user silently
>> login.
>> 2. An API which is capable of sending communication emails to the users.
>>
>> Thanks and Regards,
>> KK
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