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

by Stian Thorgersen, Pedro Igor Silva
June 2021
Beginner to intermediate
362 pages
7h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 11: Authenticating Users

In the previous chapters, you learned how to manage users. You also walked through examples that involved users authenticating in Keycloak.

By now, you should be aware of how easy it is to set up Keycloak to promptly authenticate your users, but there is much more to authentication than just using a login page and asking users for passwords.

In this chapter, we are going to take a closer look at how authentication works, as well as the different authentication methods you can use to authenticate users. You will also be presented with more details about how password-based authentication works and how Keycloak can be used as a strong authentication system by leveraging two-factor authentication (2FA) and multi-factor ...

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ISBN: 9781800562493