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_4

4. Identity Provisioning

Yvonne Wilson¹  and Abhishek Hingnikar²

(1)

San Francisco, CA, USA

(2)

London, UK

 

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

—John le Carré, from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974)

The first step in the life of an identity is its creation. If Descartes had lived in the time of Internet identity, he might have quipped, “Ego signati sursum, ergo sum” (I signed up, therefore I am). Provisioning is the act of establishing identities and accounts for your application. As defined in Chapter 2, an identity includes at least one identifier and ...