Although each realm can have variations in what information we collect., or what authentication process is setup, there is a minimum set of recommendations that should be follow in each realm setup.
User registration fields
Field | Mandatory | Type | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | First name | Mandatory | Native to keycloak |
2 | Surname | Mandatory | Native to keycloak |
3 | Username | Mandatory | Native to keycloak |
4 | Email address | Mandatory | Native to keycloak. |
5 | Phone number | Recommended as mandatory | +CCC NNNNNNN |
6 | WhatsAppID | Optional | +CCC NNNNNNN |
7 | Preferred Language | Mandatory | additional field |
8 | User profiling | per realm | additional field |
9 | Type of worker | per realm | additional field |
10 | Employee ID | per realm | additional field |
11 | Health Unit | per realm | additional field |
12 | City/Town | Optional | additional field |
13 | SubNational L2 | per realm | additional field |
14 | SubNational L1 | per realm | additional field |
Information not collected:
Country: not necessary, as the user will be on a real that
Use of email
Expected for all users. Keycloak will enforce uniqueness within the Realm
For self-created accounts, users will receive an email that they need to open an visit the suggested URL for email validation
For manually created account or imported accounts, email will set to ‘verified’
Setting username
By realm - Keycloak enforces uniqueness
A combination of first name and last name can be used, but must be consistent across the realm accounts
First Name + “.” + Last Name (rodolfo.melia)
Initial First Name + “.” + Last Name (r.melia)
Initial First Name + Last Name (rmelia)
Gender
if you ask for gender, consider a 3rd option for ‘do not with to disclose’
F | Female |
M | Male |
Do not want to disclose |
Self Registration
Auto-suggested based on a combination listed above (small custom dev)
Will display an error is username is taken (or if possible as a number: rmelia2)
email account will need to be validated (see email section)
Authentication guidelines
In general, we will setup Keycloak mirroring PSI’s authentication guidelines which can be summarised as detailed below.
PSI’s Password guidelines IMPLEMENTED JUNE 2023
8 characters or more
Never expires
must include
one lower case,
one upper case,
one number and
one special character
Not user name
Not email
Password recovery
Self-register
PSI' 2FA IMPLEMENTED JUNE 2023
Enrolment via FreeOTP, Google or Microsoft authenticator
valid for 30 days per application/device
Example: if a user authenticates Firefox on a given laptop, and then uses Google Chrome on the same device, the user will need to authenticate again.
2FA optional NOT IMPLEMENTED
Geo-limit: if IP is > 500 miles from previous login, request 2FA
Email verification IMPLEMENTED JUNE 2023
If a user list is imported, emails can be marked as verified.
If users self-register, they are expected to verify their email by following the link send at the time of account creation.
Phone Verification NOT IMPLEMENTED
If a user list is imported, phones can be marked as verified.
If users self-register, they are expected to verify their phone by entering the SMS sent to them at the time of account creation.