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Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804616444
Pages 350 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Stian Thorgersen Stian Thorgersen
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Pedro Igor Silva Pedro Igor Silva
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with Keycloak 2. Securing Your First Application 3. Brief Introduction to Standards 4. Authenticating Users with OpenID Connect 5. Authorizing Access with OAuth 2.0 6. Securing Different Application Types 7. Integrating Applications with Keycloak 8. Authorization Strategies 9. Configuring Keycloak for Production 10. Managing Users 11. Authenticating Users 12. Managing Tokens and Sessions 13. Extending Keycloak 14. Securing Keycloak and Applications 15. Assessments 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Dealing with users logging out

Dealing with logout in a SSO experience can actually be a quite difficult task, especially if you want an instant logout of all applications a user is using.

Initiating the logout

A logout can for example be initiated by the user through clicking on a logout button in the application. When the logout button is clicked, the application would send a request to the OpenID Connect RP-Initiated logout.

The application redirects the user to the Keycloak End Session endpoint, which is registered in the OpenID Provider Metadata as end_session_endpoint. The endpoint takes the following parameters:

  • id_token_hint: A previously issued ID token. This token is used by Keycloak to identify the client that is logging out, the user, as well as the session that the client wants to log out of.
  • post_logout_redirect_uri: If the client wants Keycloak to redirect back to it after the logout, it can pass the URL to Keycloak. The client has to previously have registered the logout...
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