auth0-spa-js
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auth0-spa-js
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Tell HN: Stytch Login SaaS Unicorn has common auth vulnerabilities
Your message feels disingenuous and not in good-faith.
Auth0 clearly advises against the localStorage option which is most similar to Stytch's:
> _Important:_ This feature will allow the caching of data _such as ID and access tokens_ to be stored in local storage. Exercising this option changes the security characteristics of your application and _should not be used lightly._ Extra care should be taken to mitigate against XSS attacks and minimize the risk of tokens being stolen from local storage.
This is from the readme of the github you linked:
https://github.com/auth0/auth0-spa-js/tree/0de9c6bf61d37fc21...
And since their other client-only solutions have major UX challenges (as you highlight), I expect most Auth0 users have landed on the secure option.
This is very different from Stytch - which as far as I can tell - doesn't disclose or acknowledge the risk, and instead willingly puts developers at increased risk. Throughout this thread, you've been dismissive of the risk despite security organizations clearly indicating that HttpOnly is best-practice.
You've found a legitimate comparison in Firebase, but for me, you've taken several steps too far trying to compare to Auth0.
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Fastify DX and SolidJS in the Real World
Auth0 provides the auth0-spa-js package which offers two ways to authenticate users:
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Persistent login in React using refresh token rotation
Therefore, I have transformed the library [@auth0/auth0-spa-js](https://github.com/auth0/auth0-spa-js), which is another official Auth0 client library, to have an authentication hook and methods that can be accessible outside the components.
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React Testing Library with Auth0 and conditional rendering
auth0-spa-js must run on a secure origin. See https://github.com/auth0/auth0-spa-js/blob/master/FAQ.md#why-do-i-get-auth0-spa-js-must-run-on-a-secure-origin for more information. 32 | it("renders a login button", () => { 33 | > 34 | const { getByText } = render( | ^ 35 | 36 | 37 |
Keycloak
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Securing Remix Apps with Keycloak
In this article we'll be using Keycloak to quickly augment an application with user management and SSO. We will demonstrate the integration by securing a page for logged-in users. This quickly provides a jump-off point to more complex integrations.
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Simplifying Keycloak Configuration with Terraform and Terragrunt
Keycloak, an open-source identity and access management solution, provides robust authentication and authorization services for modern applications. However, configuring Keycloak instances manually can be tedious and error-prone. In this blog post, we'll explore how to simplify Keycloak configuration using Terraform and Terragrunt, enabling infrastructure as code (IaC) practices for managing Keycloak realms, clients, users, and more.
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Securing Vue Apps with Keycloak
In this article we'll be using Keycloak to secure a Vue.js Web application. We're going to leverage oidc-client-ts to integrate OIDC authentication with the Vue app. The oidc-client-ts package is a well-maintained and used library. It provides a lot of utilities for building out a fully production app.
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User Management and Identity Brokering for On-Prem Apps with Keycloak
Keycloak has been a leader in the Identity and Access Management world since its launch almost 8 years ago. It is an open-source offering under the stewardship of Red Hat
- Navigating Identity Authentication: From LDAP to Modern Protocols
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Ask HN: No-code, simple-setup user management
It sounds like what you're looking for is an identity provider.
A popular open source option is https://www.keycloak.org/
This application can manage your users, then you can use standards like OpenID or SAML to plug it into your application, of which there are usually many plugins to accomplish this depending on your tech stack.
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Top 6 Open Source Identity and Access Management (IAM) Solutions For Enterprises
KeyCloak is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project that offers enterprise IAM solutions. Keycloak emphasizes proficient enterprise authorization solutions by providing:
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Outline: Self hostable, realtime, Markdown compatible knowledge base
Outline only uses SSO for authentication. The solution when self hosting is use a private keycloak server [1]. This allows you to do email based auth.
[1] https://www.keycloak.org/
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Keycloak open redirect: wildcard redirect URIs can be exploited to steal tokens
> Keycloak was good but has too much legacy for 10+ years.
I got curious, actually seems to check out and explains why it's so well documented (but also complex and oftentimes confusing):
> The first production release of Keycloak was in September 2014, with development having started about a year earlier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keycloak
https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/releases/tag/1.0.0.Fina...
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What Is OIDC?
> Don't outsource either your authentication or authorization. Run it in-house.
This is hard to do, though. I hope people here will drop a lot of combinations that work for them!
Personally, for a small/medium scale project, I went with:
Keycloak: https://www.keycloak.org/
It supports various backing RDBMSes (like PostgreSQL, MariaDB/MySQL and others), allows both users that you persist in your own DB, as well as various external sources, like social login across various platforms, is an absolute pain to configure and sometimes acts in stupid ways behind a reverse proxy, but has most of the features that you might ever want, which sadly comes coupled with some complexity and an enterprise feeling.
I quite like that it offers the login/registration views that you need with redirects, as well as user management, storing roles/permissions and other custom attributes. It's on par with what you'd expect and should serve you nicely.
mod_auth_openidc: https://github.com/OpenIDC/mod_auth_openidc
This one's a certified OpenID Connect Relying Party implementation for... Apache2/httpd.
Some might worry about the performance and there are other options out there (like a module for OpenResty, which is built on top of Nginx), but when coupled with mod_md Apache makes for a great reverse proxy/ingress for my personal needs.
The benefit here is that I don't need 10 different implementations for each service/back end language that's used, I can outsource the heavy lifting to mod_auth_openidc (protected paths, needed roles/permissions, redirect URLs, token renewal and other things) and just read a few trusted headers behind the reverse proxy if further checks are needed, which is easy in all technologies.
That said, the configuration there is also hard and annoying to do, as is working with OpenID Connect in general, even though you can kind of understand why that complexity is inherent. Here's a link with some certified implementations, by the way: https://openid.net/developers/certified-openid-connect-imple...
What are some alternatives?
nextjs-auth0 - Next.js SDK for signing in with Auth0
authelia - The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps
auth0-angular - Auth0 SDK for Angular Single Page Applications
authentik - The authentication glue you need.
auth0-python - Auth0 SDK for Python
Apache Shiro - Apache Shiro
AppAuth-JS - JavaScript client SDK for communicating with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect providers.
OPA (Open Policy Agent) - Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.
auth0-react - Auth0 SDK for React Single Page Applications (SPA)
IdentityServer - The most flexible and standards-compliant OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.x framework for ASP.NET Core
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