Crowd Using SCIM User And Group Provisioning For Keycloak

Download And Installation

• Log into your Crowd instance as an admin.
• Navigate to the Administration menu and Click Manage Apps.
• Click Find new apps or Find new add-ons from the left-hand side of the page.
• Locate SCIM for Crowd via search and click on install.

Step 1: Get SCIM Client Details

• In the SCIM configuration, Please enter App Name and click on the Save Settings button. Copy the SCIM Base URL and SCIM Bearer Token, these will be used later to configure the SCIM application on Keycloak.

Step 2: Setup Keycloak

• First of all, login to your Keycloak dashboard.
• Click on Clients from the left sidebar and Create new clients.

• Enter a name as the Client id and select Client Protocol as open id connect.

• Now, you will see the Settings page of the created client.

• Here, select Access Type as confidential . Make sure the options Standard Flow Enabled, Direct Access Grants Enabled, Service Accounts Enabled and Authorization Enabled options are turned on.
• Also, against Valid redirect URIs put your crowd base URL. And then click on SAVE.
• After saving, go to the Credentials tab on top. Save the client secret from here.

• Now go to Roles from the top menu and select uma_protection.

• Under uma_protection, turn on Composite Roles and transfer all the Realm roles from Available Roles to Associated Roles.
• Go to the Service account roles -> select "realm-management" and add the below highlighted scopes

Step 3: User Sync Settings

• Select the User Sync Settings tab from the left sidebar. Here you can configure different settings about user creation and updation.
• You can Create the directory using Create Directory option where you want SCIM Operations to be performed.

• You can also select your Directory Type from the dropdown.

• Enable Import Users option to import all active Keycloak Users.
• The user can be automatically enabled or disabled here based on IDP configuration.
• You also have the option to set Default Project Lead and Default Component Lead.
• Attribute mapping enables you to map your attributes sourced from the IDP to Crowd attributes. Through this section you can map your Crowd attributes to the attributes coming from IDP. By default, email corresponds to the email/mail attribute, and displayName corresponds to the full name attribute. However, if you want to map these Crowd attributes with other attributes coming from IDP, you can use this feature to change the attribute mapping configurations.

Step 4: Group Sync Settings

• Select the Group Sync Settings tab from the left sidebar. Here you can configure different settings for group creation and group mapping.

• Here you can configure Default groups for new and all users.
• You can set Manual Group Mapping or On-The Fly Group Mapping.

1. Manual Group Mapping -

• Here you can manually map Crowd groups with the groups from IDP.
• You can also configure to import IDP groups, and to keep existing users or not.

2. On-The Fly Group Mapping -

• Here users will be assigned to groups in Crowd whose group name is the same as groups from IDP. If the group doesn't exist in Crowd then it will be created.
• You can configure to keep the existing user groups.

Step 5: Backup & Restore

• In the Backup and Restore tab you can Import and Export plugin configurations in the JSON format.