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Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications

By : Stian Thorgersen, Pedro Igor Silva
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Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications

By: Stian Thorgersen, Pedro Igor Silva

Overview of this book

Implementing authentication and authorization for applications can be a daunting experience, often leaving them exposed to security vulnerabilities. Keycloak is an open-source solution for identity management and access management for modern applications, which can make a world of difference if you learn how to use it. Keycloak, helping you get started with using it and securing your applications. Complete with hands-on tutorials, best practices, and self-assessment questions, this easy-to-follow guide will show you how to secure a sample application and then move on to securing different application types. As you progress, you will understand how to configure and manage Keycloak as well as how to leverage some of its more advanced capabilities. Finally, you'll gain insights into securely using Keycloak in production. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to install and manage Keycloak as well as how to secure new and existing applications.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Keycloak
4
Section 2: Securing Applications with Keycloak
11
Section 3: Configuring and Managing Keycloak
17
Section 4: Security Considerations

Invoking the UserInfo endpoint

In addition to being able to find information about the authenticated user from the ID token, it is also possible to invoke the UserInfo endpoint with an access token obtained through an OIDC flow.

Let's try this out by opening the playground application. You may at this point have to send new authentication and token requests, as it may be that your SSO session has expired.

If you're a quick reader (or you obtained new tokens), then click on 5 – UserInfo. Under UserInfo Request, you will see that the playground application is sending a request to the Keycloak UserInfo endpoint, including the access token in the authorization header.

The following screenshot from the playground application shows an example UserInfo Request:

Figure 4.11 – UserInfo request

Under UserInfo Response you will see the response Keycloak sent. You may notice that this does not have all the additional fields in the ID token...