Kanidm: A simple, secure and fast identity management platform

• kanidm

  12 2,097 9.8 Rust

  Kanidm: A simple, secure and fast identity management platform

  

Interesting that they are choosing to provide an integrated solution including user management and OAuth IdP ( https://github.com/kanidm/kanidm/pull/485 ) rather than plug into existing open source or even commercial offerings.

Here's a design doc about their OAuth choices: https://github.com/kanidm/kanidm/blob/master/designs/oauth.r...

It would seem simpler to go with the Ory approach of "best in breed" for, say network management tooling (most of which they already have implemented), and then integrate with Keycloak, Okta, FusionAuth, the Ory suite, etc for user management. Maybe they didn't want to do that because there are synergies with integrated user management? I dunno, seems like there are a lot of user management tools out there.

I also find it interesting that they explicitly disallow a goal of building a better LDAP server. I think there's a lot of room to run in that. My employer has had users show a fair bit of interest in a modern experience with LDAP layered on top ( https://github.com/FusionAuth/fusionauth-issues/issues/954 ) and I talked to someone at a conference that had built a whole business out of virtual LDAP: https://www.radiantlogic.com . They were working with companies with multiple LDAP based auth systems, and providing a way to have apps see one view of the user.

Maybe kanidm isn't that project, but it seems like a modern OSS LDAP implementation would be welcomed by the software community.

Disclosure: I work at FusionAuth.

• Ory Kratos

  41 10,547 9.6 Go

  Next-gen identity server replacing your Auth0, Okta, Firebase with hardened security and PassKeys, SMS, OIDC, Social Sign In, MFA, FIDO, TOTP and OTP, WebAuthn, passwordless and much more. Golang, headless, API-first. Available as a worry-free SaaS with the fairest pricing on the market! (by ory)

  

Thank you for publishing this open source project! One question I have though - there are so many projects in this area popping up (eg. Ory‘s Kratos - https://github.com/ory/kratos) - isn’t there a way to collaborate on these larger projects instead of starting new ones? Or are there specific differences or reasons for rebuilding something like Kandim?

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• fusionauth-issues

  22 88 7.0

  FusionAuth issue submission project

  

Interesting that they are choosing to provide an integrated solution including user management and OAuth IdP ( https://github.com/kanidm/kanidm/pull/485 ) rather than plug into existing open source or even commercial offerings.

Here's a design doc about their OAuth choices: https://github.com/kanidm/kanidm/blob/master/designs/oauth.r...

It would seem simpler to go with the Ory approach of "best in breed" for, say network management tooling (most of which they already have implemented), and then integrate with Keycloak, Okta, FusionAuth, the Ory suite, etc for user management. Maybe they didn't want to do that because there are synergies with integrated user management? I dunno, seems like there are a lot of user management tools out there.

I also find it interesting that they explicitly disallow a goal of building a better LDAP server. I think there's a lot of room to run in that. My employer has had users show a fair bit of interest in a modern experience with LDAP layered on top ( https://github.com/FusionAuth/fusionauth-issues/issues/954 ) and I talked to someone at a conference that had built a whole business out of virtual LDAP: https://www.radiantlogic.com . They were working with companies with multiple LDAP based auth systems, and providing a way to have apps see one view of the user.

Maybe kanidm isn't that project, but it seems like a modern OSS LDAP implementation would be welcomed by the software community.

Disclosure: I work at FusionAuth.

• solid

  117 8,173 0.0 HTML

  Solid - Re-decentralizing the web (project directory) (by solid)

  

Making this a Solid Server or starting as a Solid IDP would be pretty valuable: https://solidproject.org/

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