[keycloak-user] User registration

[Stian Thorgersen]

Hi,

This is something we already have in mind and we are planning to introduce
a new user event SPI which will cover exactly what you are talking about

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019, 10:51 John Norris, <johnnorris-10 at outlook.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> this is not really a problem but some feedback on the user registration
> feature in keycloak.
> This should be a really useful feature. It is simple to turn on in the
> admin console. And suddenly there is a new link in login page. But I am not
> sure how useful it is from a practical viewpoint.
> The user can register and, from a keycloak perspective, is then logged in
> to the application. But because the app will be set up to use roles, the
> app does not see the user as authenticated and so is prevented from seeing
> the protected url. The solution would be to have a default role set up in
> the client, perhaps with low permissions until further verification takes
> place.
> But there may be other things that need to take place such as adding the
> user to the apps database.
> So would it be useful, in addition to the user registration yes/no switch,
> to have a url that a newly registered is sent to for other actions to take
> place?
> I know that events should be able to deal with this but I had real trouble
> trying to get custom events to work (in fact never did, keycloak would
> crash when changes were made to standalone.xml file).
> So not a complaint, not a bug, just some feedback and very much my opinion
> based on limited keycloak experience and knowledge.
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