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Backends configuration | User metadata

Backends parameters help to manage identity storage and associated features within the server. Those are to keep credentials and identities while providing them abilities helping to manage authorization and authentication provided by the identity provider interfaces.

Parameters sections

Backends can be customized through either the Administration API or the user interface providing 6 categories of settings:

  • General configuration
  • Type
  • Email configuration
  • Identity federation
  • Verifiable credentials
  • User metadata

User metadata parameters​

Add metadata field add an attribute to users' schema that would sit on top of base identification credentials. Those would be present in resource owner claims.

Metadata field​

User editable define if users can update the metadata field.

Scope restriction (leave blank for no restriction) gives the list of scopes needed to access the metadata field.

Attribute name is the name of the attribute, the key of the attribute when expressed as JSON.

User interface​

backend form