Farasath blogs

The first thing I did after joining the WSO2 Identity Server team was to test the WSO2 Identity Server 5.2.0-beta pack. I had some experience playing around with OAuth so I started testing OAuth scenarios. I was able to test most grant types with ease. Then came the authorization code grant type. The usual way to test it was to setup the playground2 app and test. I wanted to look for an alternate way to test the Authorization grant type without setting up the app (partly because I was lazy to download tomcat etc. :P ) So with the help of my team member Pushpalanka, I found an alternate way to get an access token by simply using a browser redirect and a curl command. So I wanted to make a note in case someone wanted to do the same :) 1. First, log in to the Identity Server management console.        the defaults are,                   username = admin                 ...

It's been almost a week since I joined WSO2. I am now part of the WSO2 Identity Server team :) So my adventures from now on will revolve around the Identity Management area and security stuff. We are currently on our way to release Identity Server 5.2.0 beta. During alpha testing, I learnt several basics that I thought worth making a note of. Hence, this post as both a note to myself and anyone starts off with WSO2 Identity Server. A user store is basically where WSO2 IS stores all information about users such as username, password, roles etc.WSO2 Identity Server comes with a built-in LDAP-based primary user store out of the box. This is true for other WSO2 products as well. However, you also have the option of configuring any JDBC database,external LDAP or an Active Directory as the secondary user store in WSO2 IS and other products. I will focus on setting up a MySQL database as the secondary user store in WSO2 IS in this post. I will divide the process into to thre...