Lesson in Brief: Starting Keycloak 17 Including On Boot And Next Steps We’re approaching the finish line with our Keycloak 17 series, with just a couple more things to take care of. In this final article, we’ll be getting our Keycloak server up and running, along with getting it to…

Lesson in Brief: Setting Up A Server With Ubuntu And MySQL In Preparation For Keycloak 17 We have previously written a complete and lengthy series about Keycloak, an Identity and Access Management solution that can be used with FileMaker to provide centralized management of users, multi-factor authentication, password-less authentication, act…

Lesson in Brief: Downloading Keycloak And Configuring The Configuration File So far in this Keycloak 17 series, we have been preparing our server by installing Ubuntu, MySQL, and downloading our SSL certificate. Now it’s time to download the star of the show, Keycloak 17, and do our final bit of…

Lesson in Brief: Changes In Keycloak 16 Require A Different SSL Configuration Set Up In part 3 of our Keycloak series, our most popular Keycloak article by far, we tackled the beast that is securing the Keycloak server with a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate. When we released that article, Keycloak…

Lesson in Brief: New Options In FileMaker Server 19.4 Allow For Less Complex Set Up Back in part 6 of our Keycloak series, we walked through the steps of how to set up FileMaker Server to use Keycloak to authenticate to a database. With the release of FileMaker 19.4, things…

What’s changed with this script step in FileMaker Pro 19.4? We’ve been through a number of iterations of FileMaker 19 now and the latest release, 19.4, introduces some changes to the Execute FileMaker Data API script step that we explored back in September 2020. So, let’s find out what’s new… What Does It Do? …

Lesson in Brief: Logging Into A Database Without Using A Password & Then Serious MFA In our last article we set up two factor authentication to make access to our database file more secure — one factor is your username/password and the second factor is the authenticator app on your…

Lesson in Brief: Taking Advantage Of Additional Security Features In Keycloak Now that we have configured Keycloak to allow us to authenticate to a FileMaker database, we can take advantage of other features of Keycloak to further secure our database. Two factor authentication is popular nowadays and we’re going to…

Lesson in Brief: Adjusting External Authentication And Setting Up Groups In our last article we configured Keycloak with a realm, client, users and more, ready for it to act as our authentication server for our FileMaker database. In the final stretch of our epic Keycloak journey, we turn our attention…