[solved] There is a way for remove required username when register an user?

#1

Hello,

I am looking for a way for remove username (not required) when register or even login the user.

My idea is that my “custom application” send a post request to keycloak admin-rest api.

< POST /auth/admin/realms/mylab/users/ HTTP/1.1
< Host: localhost:8080
< User-Agent: python-requests/2.25.1
< Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
< Accept: */*
< Connection: keep-alive
< Content-type: application/json
< Authorization: Bearer eyJhbG......etc
< Content-Length: 97
< 
< {"enabled": true, "emailVerified": true, "realmRoles": ["Customer"], "email": "teste1@gmail.com"}
> HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
> X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
> X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
> Referrer-Policy: no-referrer
> Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 18:27:47 GMT
> Connection: keep-alive
> Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
> X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
> Content-Type: application/json
> Content-Length: 39
> 
{"errorMessage":"User name is missing"}

To solve it I just created a random username with uuid4() :

payload = {
            "username": str(uuid.uuid4()),
            "enabled": True,
            "emailVerified": True,
            "realmRoles": ["Customer"]
        }

But there is a way to do that in some admin dashboard?

#2

Hello @lucassimon
In Keycloak username is a mandatory field , so you cannot simply remove it. As an IAM solution it primarily relies on username for a user to be able to login or perform other actions.
However, Keycloak has another option wherein you can make email to be used as the default username for the user.

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Once you enable this setting, you will be able to create the user with the details you mentioned above.
NOTE: Changing Email as Username is an irreversible change for a Realm as far as I know. So proceed with caution.

Also note that ,though you will be able to create a new user this way it’s also possible to completely customise the login flow as per your requirements with the help of a custom SPI you can create your own flow and set it as default flow for login.
That’s a topic for another discussion altogether.

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