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OAuth / OIDC Endpoints

Modgud implements the OpenID Connect protocol via OpenIddict 7. Every endpoint is realm-scoped via the host header — each realm has its own issuer, discovery document, JWKS, and token surface.

Cryptographic constraints

SettingValue
Access-token signing algorithmRS256
ID-token signing algorithmRS256
PKCE methodS256 (plain is rejected)
Realm signing keysRSA, one keypair per realm

The signing keys live in RealmSigningKey Marten documents, rotated on demand from admin. The JWKS endpoint exposes the public set.

Discovery

EndpointDescription
GET /.well-known/openid-configurationOIDC discovery document for the current realm
GET /.well-known/jwksJSON Web Key Set (for JWT validation)

Example discovery for realm acme.example.com:

https://acme.example.com/.well-known/openid-configuration

→ Returns issuer: "https://acme.example.com" plus the realm's endpoint URLs. Tokens from this discovery are valid only in this realm.

Implemented via RealmIssuerHandler (see OAuth implementation).

The discovery document advertises only enabled scopes that are public-listed (OAuthScope.ShowInDiscoveryDocument = true). The implicit-scope-per-API entries default to false (private), so they don't leak the realm's resource-server inventory. See Concepts: OAuth for the RealmScopesSupportedHandler rationale.

Endpoint map

All under /connect/..., all realm-scoped via the domain:

EndpointMethodPurpose
/connect/authorizeGET/POSTAuthorization endpoint (Code + PKCE)
/connect/tokenPOSTToken endpoint (code exchange, client credentials, refresh, device)
/connect/userinfoGET/POSTUserInfo endpoint (claims + per-Audience resource_access)
/connect/introspectPOSTToken introspection
/connect/revokePOSTToken revocation
/connect/logoutGET/POSTEnd-session endpoint (RP-initiated logout)
/connect/devicePOSTDevice-authorization endpoint (CLI / TV / set-top boxes)
/connect/verifyGETUser-verification endpoint for the device flow
/connect/registerPOSTDynamic Client Registration (RFC 7591). Registration only — there is no RFC 7592 management surface.
/connect/consentGET/POSTConsent ticket resolve + decision (the SPA calls these after /connect/authorize redirects it to /consent?ticket=…). A deny decision re-enters /connect/authorize with a deny marker so the client gets a standard error=access_denied redirect, symmetric with an approve.
/connect/passkey/beginPOSTAnonymous — begin a usernameless WebAuthn assertion ceremony for the urn:cocoar:passkey grant
/connect/passkeyGETBearer-authenticated — list the signed-in token subject's own passkeys
/connect/passkey/{id}DELETEBearer-authenticated — revoke one of the token subject's own passkeys

Supported flows

The discovery doc lists grant_types_supported:

Grant typeUse case
authorization_codeStandard interactive login (web, SPA, mobile). PKCE required (S256).
refresh_tokenToken rotation. Single-use — each refresh issues a new refresh-token and invalidates the old one.
client_credentialsServer-to-server. Must be linked to a ServiceAccount (the SA-managed mutation guard rejects free-standing CC clients).
urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:device_codeDevice flow for input-constrained clients.
urn:cocoar:otpNative cookieless login/registration via an emailed one-time code — see Native cookieless grants.
urn:cocoar:magicNative cookieless login via a magic-link token.
urn:cocoar:passkeyNative cookieless login via a WebAuthn assertion begun at /connect/passkey/begin.

The urn:cocoar:* grants are disabled by default (the per-realm/App NativeGrants flag) and are for clients that can't hold a session cookie — no browser redirect, no /connect/authorize round-trip.

response_modes_supported: query, form_post, fragment. response_types_supported: code (no implicit, no hybrid).

Authorization Code + PKCE

Request

http
GET /connect/authorize?
    client_id=acme-web&
    redirect_uri=https://acme.example.com/callback&
    response_type=code&
    scope=openid+profile+email+roles+permissions&
    state=<csrf>&
    code_challenge=<base64url(sha256(verifier))>&
    code_challenge_method=S256

If not logged in → 302 to the realm's /login (the cookie auth handler returns 401 outside the OAuth flow; /connect/authorize is the exception that drives the login UX). After successful login and consent → 302 to the redirect_uri with ?code=…&state=….

Token exchange

http
POST /connect/token
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

grant_type=authorization_code
code=…
redirect_uri=https://acme.example.com/callback
code_verifier=…
client_id=acme-web
client_secret=…           # for confidential clients

Response:

json
{
  "access_token": "…",      // reference id or JWT (per client choice)
  "token_type": "Bearer",
  "expires_in": 3600,
  "refresh_token": "…",     // if offline_access requested
  "id_token": "…"           // if openid requested
}

Client Credentials

http
POST /connect/token
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

grant_type=client_credentials
client_id=acme-cron
client_secret=…
scope=billing.read

The client must be linked to a Service Account (LinkedServiceAccountId). The sub claim in the resulting token is the Service Account's id; the SA is treated as a non-human principal that goes through the normal Group→Role→Permission resolver.

Refresh Token

http
POST /connect/token
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

grant_type=refresh_token
refresh_token=…
client_id=acme-web
client_secret=…

Single-use with rotation: every use issues a new refresh token and invalidates the old one. Replay attempts return invalid_grant.

Device flow

For CLI tools, set-top boxes, anything without a browser.

1. Device requests a code

http
POST /connect/device
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

client_id=acme-cli
scope=openid+profile

Response:

json
{
  "device_code": "…",
  "user_code": "ABCD-EFGH",
  "verification_uri": "https://acme.example.com/connect/verify",
  "verification_uri_complete": "https://acme.example.com/connect/verify?user_code=ABCD-EFGH",
  "expires_in": 600,
  "interval": 5
}

2. User visits the verification URL

GET /connect/verify shows a form for the user_code. After login + consent the device-code is approved.

3. Device polls the token endpoint

http
POST /connect/token
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

grant_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:device_code
device_code=…
client_id=acme-cli

Returns authorization_pending until the user has verified; then a normal token response.

UserInfo

Accepts both GET and POST (per the OIDC spec):

http
GET /connect/userinfo
Authorization: Bearer <access_token>

Returns the claims for the bearer token, plus a resource_access block (Keycloak-style nesting) keyed per Audience:

json
{
  "sub":   "abc123…",
  "email": "alice@example.com",
  "resource_access": {
    "billing": {
      "roles": ["Editor"],
      "permissions": ["invoice:read", "invoice:write"]
    }
  }
}
  • roles is emitted when scope=roles was granted.
  • permissions is emitted when scope=permissions was granted, bypass-pre-expanded and narrowed to the calling OAuthApi's PermissionIds subset.
  • One block per audience listed in aud; a microservice within a multi-RS App sees only its declared subset.

See Apps and resource_access for the full emission story.

Introspection

http
POST /connect/introspect
Authorization: Basic <base64(client_id:client_secret)>
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

token=<token>

Returns active: true/false plus all the token's claims. Used by resource servers that hold reference tokens (server-side opaque) to validate them against the issuer.

Revocation

http
POST /connect/revoke
Authorization: Basic <base64(client_id:client_secret)>
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

token=<token>
token_type_hint=access_token   # or refresh_token

Reference tokens become immediately invalid; JWTs can't actually be revoked server-side (they self-validate against JWKS), but their parent authorization is killed so any associated refresh tokens stop working.

Dynamic Client Registration (DCR)

RFC 7591 registration only, scoped to the realm. Disabled by default; enabled per-realm in Realm Settings → Dynamic Client Registration. There is no RFC 7592 management surface — GET/PUT/DELETE on a per-client registration URL is not implemented. The endpoint mints a client and is done; later changes go through the admin UI.

Register a new client

http
POST /connect/register
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "client_name": "Some MCP Server",
  "redirect_uris": ["https://mcp.example.com/callback"],
  "grant_types": ["authorization_code", "refresh_token"],
  "response_types": ["code"],
  "scope": "openid profile",
  "token_endpoint_auth_method": "none"
}

Response (201 Created — RFC 7591 §3.2.1):

json
{
  "client_id": "dcr_…",
  "client_id_issued_at": 1735689600,
  "token_endpoint_auth_method": "none",
  "grant_types": ["authorization_code", "refresh_token"],
  "response_types": ["code"],
  "redirect_uris": ["https://mcp.example.com/callback"],
  "client_name": "Some MCP Server",
  "scope": "openid profile"
}

The response echoes the sanitized registration plus the assigned client_id and client_id_issued_at. No client_secret is issued (public PKCE clients only), and there is no registration_access_token / registration_client_uri — RFC 7592 management is out of scope. DCR-registered clients are marked [unverified] in their display name to flag them in admin grids (the consent page renders the same marker).

DCR constraints

  • Only none (PKCE-only public client) and client_secret_basic auth methods accepted.
  • Redirect URIs must be HTTPS or localhost; deep-link schemes are rejected.
  • Triple opt-in: the realm must enable DCR globally; the requested scopes must be per-Scope-DCR-allowed; the resource server (if any) must be per-API-DCR-allowed.
  • Unverified DCR clients with no recent last_used_at activity are garbage-collected by the daily dcr-gc Quartz job (default TTL: 90 days).

Per-realm isolation

Each realm has:

  • Its own OAuth clients (OAuthApplicationState in the tenant store)
  • Its own scopes (OAuthScopeState)
  • Its own API resources (OAuthApiState)
  • Its own authorizations + tokens
  • Its own issuer (realm domain via RealmIssuerHandler)
  • Its own discovery document and JWKS

Tokens from realm A are invalid in realm B — issuer mismatch alone suffices for rejection. Identical client_id strings in two realms are different clients.

Per-client token format

Per client you can choose between Reference Token (default) and JWT:

FormatStorageValidationRevocation
ReferenceServer-side OpenIddictTokenDocumentAPI calls /connect/introspectImmediate
JWTSelf-containedAPI verifies locally with JWKSEffective only on refresh expiry

Switched per request via AccessTokenTypeHandler. Reference tokens are the right default for first-party apps (cheap revocation, no extra trust in the JWT lib version on the RS side); JWTs are the right pick for high-throughput RS scenarios where the introspection call would dominate latency.

OAuth admin endpoints

For managing the OAuth entities (clients, scopes, APIs) see Admin API → OAuth Clients/Scopes/APIs.

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