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Creating users in Keycloak

To interact with your NPL application, you need to create users who have permission to trigger actions like creating protocols and executing permissions. NOUMENA Cloud applications contain a keycloak instance by default. Accessing other identity and access management services can be configured.

Understanding Identity Management

Keycloak provides:

  • User registration and authentication
  • OAuth2/OpenID Connect for secure API access
  • Federation with external identity providers

Creating Test Users

Follow these steps to create two test users (Alice and Bob) for your application:

  1. In the Services tab of your application, expand the Keycloak section

  2. Copy the Keycloak admin credentials from the Keycloak admin username and Keycloak admin password fields and click to visit the Console URL Keycloak login screen

  3. Once logged in to the Keycloak admin console, select your application name as the realm in the top-left dropdown Selecting the application realm

  4. Navigate to the Users tab in the left sidebar and click Add User Adding a new user

  5. Create the first user with username alice and click Create Creating Alice user

  6. In the user's Credentials tab, click Set password

  7. Enter a secure password

  8. Set Temporary to Off

  9. Click Save Setting user password

  10. Repeat steps 4-6 to create a second user with username bob

User Authorization

With these users created, they can now:

  • Authenticate to your application
  • Create and interact with protocol instances
  • Execute permissions based on their attributes

Next Steps

Now that you have users set up, continue to Making your first API calls to interact with your NPL application.