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Jan Kos
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Jan KosGoodData Employee
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Authentication in GoodData Cloud

In this article I will summarize the authentication methods in GoodData Cloud and what are the future plans. Also, I will show a simple example of how to set up Auth0 as an OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider with GoodData Cloud. When your GoodData Cloud environment is provisioned, by default it is created with one user in our Auth0 Identity provider. For proper user management, we assume that you will be using your own OIDC provider. Setting up authentication and supported Identity providers can be found on the following help page. GoodData Cloud uses OAuth 2.0 and OIDC protocol standard to handle authentication. OAuth 2.0 is authorization framework that enables websites or applications access to resources hosted on another web application on behalf of a user. OIDC protocol is an identity layer built on top of OAuth 2.0 and handles authentication (to identify who the user is). Tokens are used during authentication flow to establish a login session and the tokens are in JSON Web format (JWT

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Jan Kos
GoodData Employee
11 months ago
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