dex

OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity and OAuth 2.0 provider with pluggable connectors (by dexidp)

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  • Keycloak took 10 months to fix a 2FA bypass
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Nov 2024
    Dex + FreeIPA (or whatever backend you want to use) ?

    Although 2FA is pending merge: https://github.com/dexidp/dex/pull/3712

  • A Federated OpenID Connect Provider
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Sep 2024
  • Navigating Identity Authentication: From LDAP to Modern Protocols
    2 projects | dev.to | 28 Mar 2024
    Dex: https://dexidp.io
  • Keycloak SSO with Docker Compose and Nginx
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Feb 2024
    Recently I looked into having a relatively simple SSO setup for my homelab. My main objective is that I could easily login with Google or GitHub auth. At my previous job I used both JetBrains Hub [1] and Keycloak but I found both of them a bit of a PITA to setup.

    JetBrains Hub was really, really easy to get going. As was my previous experience with them. The only thing that annoyed me was the lack of a latest tag on their Docker registry. Don't get me wrong, pinned versions are great, but for my personal use I mostly just want to update all my Docker containers in one go.

    On the other hand I found Keycloak very cumbersome to get going. It was pretty easy in dev mode, but I stumbled to get it going in production. AFAIK it had something to do with the wildcard Let's Encrypt cert that I tried to use. But after a couple of hours, I just gave up.

    I finally went with Dex [2]. I had previously put it off because of the lack of documentation, but in the end it was extremely easy to setup. It just required some basic YAML, a SQLite database and a (sub)domain. I combined Dex with the excellent OAuth2 Proxy and a custom Nginx (Proxy Manager) template for an easy two line SSO configuration on all of my internal services.

    In addition to this setup, I also added Cloudflare Access and WAF outside of my home to add some security. I only want to add some CrowdSec to get a little more insights.

    1. https://www.jetbrains.com/hub/

    2. https://dexidp.io/

    3. https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy

    3. https://github.com/alex3305/unraid-docker-templates

  • Sign in with GitHub in Go
    1 project | /r/golang | 10 Dec 2023
    Another great option is to use https://github.com/dexidp/dex in an authentication setup. In your app, you federate the authentication to dex using OAuth2. Dex then has a pluggable architecture with built-in connectors for many established identity providers using a variety of protocols: Among others OAuth2, SAML 2 but also GitHub, Google, Gitea and so forth.
  • Show HN: Obligator – An OpenID Connect server for self-hosters
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2023
  • I made a small program that makes it easier to run commands inside containers
    4 projects | /r/docker | 20 Jun 2023
    dex is well-known: https://github.com/dexidp/dex
  • Keycloak – Open-Source Identity and Access Management Interview
    26 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jun 2023
    We used keycloak for openid identity provider as well. It is fine to setup keycloak once. But it is painful share the setup with other engineers.

    For local development, we end up using dex (https://dexidp.io). When we need support group/role, we use dex and glauth(https://glauth.github.io). Both dex and glauth can be configured with yaml files. We just created a few yaml files and a docker compose file, every engineer can be brought up the whole environment in a few seconds.

    Also https://www.authelia.com and https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik look pretty promising, if you need more advanced features from them.

  • dex VS boruta-server - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 22 May 2023
  • Have you convinced anyone to use Nix or NixOS? Friends? Coworkers?
    5 projects | /r/NixOS | 16 Apr 2023
    I added it as an available option (flake) in Dex: https://github.com/dexidp/dex
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