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Life & fun · December 6, 2024

Authduck – Playground Server for OpenID Connect Clients

Hey HN I'm currently living my dream, being paid to do what I love: programming, something I've been doing since middle school for over 15 years. In those years doing programming, I’ve always thought that OpenID Connect/OAuth for Authentication is an amazing idea that more programmers should be familiar with. Using (properly configured) SSO may be one of the best security investment made by companies. It also saves a lot of works, both for companies (by delegating user management-related features to third party) and users (by reducing friction when using new services). However, one of…

Authduck – Playground Server for OpenID Connect Clients launched on December 6, 2024 with 6 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

What it does

OIDC Server Playground for development & testing. Contribute to azophy/authduck development by creating an account on GitHub.

Sometime when developing a web app, its easier to integrate OIDC early in the process, as it allows to skip many important auth-related feature (login, registration, password reset, etc). however setting up IdP for development purposes often takes a lot of effort. this project aims to provide a simple IdP server for this purposes, with minimal features registering on a cloud OIDC provider is not always straightforward (google, twitter, etc). distributing the credentials is also another minefield. so a mock IdP server seems like the best option Curently we only provide a generic OIDC server module. However in the future we plan to add mock server for popular services such as Google, Github,…from github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN I'm currently living my dream, being paid to do what I love: programming, something I've been doing since middle school for over 15 years. In those years doing programming, I’ve always thought that OpenID Connect/OAuth for Authentication is an amazing idea that more programmers should be familiar with.…

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