Solving Identity Management in Modern Applications: Demystifying OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SAML 2.0

© Yvonne Wilson, Abhishek Hingnikar  2019

Y. Wilson, A. HingnikarSolving Identity Management in Modern Applicationshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5095-2_14

14. Account Management

Yvonne Wilson¹  and Abhishek Hingnikar²

(1)

San Francisco, CA, USA

(2)

London, UK

 

And yet in our world, everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

—Leo Tolstoy, from “Three Methods of Reform”

It may be true, as suggested by Tolstoy, that people are unwilling to make deep internal changes, but when it comes to identity information, it is quite common for there to be changes! In this chapter, we’ll cover the need to support changes to an identity and its attributes over time.

Identity Attributes

A user’s identity information may change over ...