You're reading from Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications Harness the power of Keycloak, OpenID Connect, and OAuth 2.0 protocols to secure applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562493

Length 362 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Docker

Concepts

System Administration

Authors (2):

Pedro Igor Silva

Stian Thorgersen

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Started with Keycloak

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Keycloak FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Securing Your First Application

4. Section 2: Securing Applications with Keycloak

5. Chapter 3: Brief Introduction to Standards

6. Chapter 4: Authenticating Users with OpenID Connect

7. Chapter 5: Authorizing Access with OAuth 2.0

8. Chapter 6: Securing Different Application Types

9. Chapter 7: Integrating Applications with Keycloak

10. Chapter 8: Authorization Strategies

11. Section 3: Configuring and Managing Keycloak

12. Chapter 9: Configuring Keycloak for Production

13. Chapter 10: Managing Users

14. Chapter 11: Authenticating Users

15. Chapter 12: Managing Tokens and Sessions

16. Chapter 13: Extending Keycloak

17. Section 4: Security Considerations

18. Chapter 14: Securing Keycloak and Applications

19. Assessments

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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...