Hey guys,

Just putting a ping here.

Best,
Arnold

Arnold Gálovics

*CEO, Co-Founder*

*+36 30 904 1885*

https://docktape.com

Docktape Technologies




On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 9:03 AM Arnold Galovics <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I'm still digesting this, but one thing we for sure need: tenant-based
> OIDC configuration.
>
> I think it's naive to think that a single OIDC configuration will be fine
> for all tenants at once. We need to be able to configure the different OIDC
> providers (even if they are different Keycloak realms) based on tenants.
> If you think about it, this is the same thing as we have today with
> Fineract with the internal user authentication. The users are different for
> each tenant.
>
> Alberto, does your change account for this?
>
> Thanks,
> Best,
> Arnold
>
> Arnold Gálovics
>
> *CEO, Co-Founder*
>
> *+36 30 904 1885*
>
> https://docktape.com
>
> Docktape Technologies
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 7:30 PM Jose Alberto Hernandez <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Adam, thanks for the feedback and comments.
>>
>> About the Auto User creation, one suggestion, we can allow the User
>> creation, but someone else will need to enable the user, as kind of approve
>> control.
>>
>> And for the IdP options for now It was tested with Google and KeyCloak,
>> we can test more, the main idea on this implementation is try to be IdP
>> agnostic, to avoid to have custom implementations
>>
>> BTW. We can Include in the Vote the initial list of the IdP vendors to be
>> avallable
>>
>> Thanks
>> Best Regards
>> Alberto
>>
>> On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 5:24 AM Ádám Sághy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Alberto,
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for the proposal and the initial information.
>>>
>>>
>>> Before we proceed with voting, I’d like to clarify a few points:
>>>
>>>
>>> *Automated User and Role Assignment*
>>>
>>>
>>> I’m not particularly fond of the idea of automating user creation and
>>> role assignments.
>>>
>>>
>>> I can’t help but wonder how it could be abused if enabled or why we
>>> should even have something like that for Fineract.
>>>
>>>
>>> I understand the convenience it offers, but I believe we need to be
>>> strict and explicit in implementing multiple validations to prevent
>>> accidental privilege escalation or ensuring those who shouldn’t have access
>>> are not granted access to Apache Fineract.
>>>
>>>
>>> Considering Fineract is a core financial system, access and roles should
>>> be limited and strictly audited. I simply don’t see the need for automation
>>> in registering users and providing access.
>>>
>>>
>>> I wonder what the community thinks about this.
>>>
>>>
>>> *Lookup by username vs email address*
>>>
>>>
>>> This part looks fine, we can have multiple unique identifiers to look up
>>> and map JWT token holder to Fineract user account, but again, we need to
>>> make sure the validation and look up methods are straightforward and
>>> explicit.
>>>
>>>
>>> *Multiple providers are listed*
>>>
>>>
>>> While I am okay to support multiple providers, but implementation wise,
>>> I don’t think we should target more than 1 or 2 at first, and the rest can
>>> be implemented based on need. I don’t want to introduce custom
>>> implementations into the system without maintainers who are interested in
>>> keeping up to date and using it in production.
>>>
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 26, 2026, at 3:22 AM, Jose Alberto Hernandez <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>   Hello Fineract community,
>>>
>>>   I would like to open a vote on FINERACT-2616: OIDC Federation Support
>>> for External Identity Providers
>>> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-2616>
>>>
>>>   This allows organizations with an existing corporate IdP (Keycloak,
>>> Google Workspace, Azure AD, Okta, Auth0) to enable SSO without forking
>>> authentication logic or maintaining a parallel user database. The feature
>>> is fully opt-in (*fineract.security.oidc-federation.enabled=true*) and
>>> does not affect existing Basic Auth or OAuth2 deployments.
>>>
>>>   Fineract PR raised <https://github.com/apache/fineract/pull/5883>
>>>
>>>   ---
>>>   The core of this contribution is *OidcAppUserResolutionServiceImpl*,
>>> which bridges an external OIDC identity to a Fineract AppUser using a 
>>> *three-step
>>> strategy* on every authenticated request:
>>>
>>>   1. *Lookup by username* — using the configured usernameClaim
>>> (default: preferred_username)
>>>   2. *Fallback by email *— matches users pre-existing in Fineract by
>>> their corporate email
>>>   3. *Auto-creation* — when enabled via
>>> *fineract.security.oidc-federation.auto-create-**user=true*, provisions
>>> a new *AppUser* on first login, assigned to the head office with the
>>> configured defaultRoles merged with any roles extracted from the OIDC
>>> token. Throws *OidcUserNotFoundException* when auto-create is disabled
>>> and no match is found.
>>>   ---
>>>   Please vote:
>>>
>>>   [ ] +1  approve
>>>   [ ] +0  no objection
>>>   [ ] -1  object because:
>>>
>>>   Thank you,
>>>   Jose Alberto Hernandez
>>>
>>>
>>>

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