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by mrweasel 579 days ago
We run Apereo CAS pretty successfully. Originally to use the CAS protocol, but now that CAS (the protocol) has been deprecated, we're slowly migrating to OIDC. One sort of weird note about Apereo CAS, OpenID Connect can return data in two format, nested and flat. CAS is the only server I've ever worked with, that defaults to nested. Almost no clients supports this, but the server can be reconfigured to use flat.

KeyCloak is also very good, but I'd run is as a container due to the quick release/update cycle. If I had to do our infrastructure over, I'd probably go for KeyCloak, just because it's the most used.
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mooreds 579 days ago
Hmmm. Here's details about using CAS as an OpenID Connect provider: https://apereo.github.io/cas/7.0.x/authentication/OIDC-Authe...

Looks like it doesn't support multiple issuers: " CAS primarily supports a single issuer per deployment/host." Have you run into any issues with that?

It also looks like it supports a number of optional standards: DPoP, JARM, PAR. Have you seen use cases for these?

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mrweasel 578 days ago
> Looks like it doesn't support multiple issuers

Yeah, we only have the one issuer, so it's not a concern. For pretty much every KeyCloak project I've done, we have also favored doing separate deployments for separate issuers, so I'd say it's not much of an issue, in most cases.

Regarding the optional standards, no. We've not run into an clients that would require or in many cases even support anything but the most basic OpenID Connect. I'm sure there's a point to supporting them, but I've never seen it being needed for your average use case.

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