censhare provides the external authentication solution Keycloak that can integrate existing authentication methods. Authentication and user management is partly handled in Keycloak and synchronized between Keycloak and the censhare Server.

About Keycloak

Keycloak is an open-source identity and access management solution. Keycloak is used to integrate external authentication methods such as LDAP or SAML. Users can be authenticated within Keycloak against an Active Directory or an LDAP server.

Keycloak is published under the free Apache 2.0 license and based on standard protocols and provides support for OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, and SAML.

Keycloak and censhare

If you are already using Keycloak in your organizational network, you can use your existing Keycloak instance. 

  • If you use an external identity provider, Keycloak serves as an identity broker between the identity provider and censhare.
  • If you use Keycloak with the censhare standard authentication, Keycloak serves as a gatekeeper to the censhare Server. 

Existing authentication methods can be used for censhare Web, the censhare Client, the censhare Admin Client and the Service Client.

Before you begin

Make yourself familiar with documentation provided by Keycloak:

Keycloak - get started

Keycloak - server installation

Keycloak - server administration

Keycloak - Admin Rest API