Oauth2 with ORY Hydra or ORY Kratos

TL;DR

Check out this article for more info if you need OAuth2: The "5 minute tutorial" does not really touch any underlying concepts, but there are multiple links to the docs that explain this.

Steps

1. [vinckr (top answer)] You need Ory Hydra if you want to become a OAuth2 provider yourself. What you are looking for is Ory Kratos, a user management system. You can also implement "Login with..." for multiple providers. Check out this article for more info if you need OAuth2: The "5 minute tutorial" does not really touch any underlying concepts, but there are multiple links to the docs that explain this. Here is a good starting point: https://www.ory.sh/hydra/docs/concepts/oauth2

When to use

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When not to use

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Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

Sources

• https://www.ory.sh/hydra/docs/concepts/oauth2

Source: Stack Overflow #65406722 (top answer, 8 votes, 2 answers): I have a project that needs to implement Oauth2 (users need to be able to login with Google or iCloud), and I decided to use ORY hydra so I don't have to write my own Oauth2 implementation. I tried figuring ORY Hydra out on my own, but I failed. I know how Oauth2 works in abstract terms, but I have no idea how to implement Oauth2 with it in practice. SDKs have no documentation, no matter what language they are for. I know that Hydra has an HTTP API, so language SDKs don't really matter, but I was hoping to find some guidance in their documentation; as I wrote, they have none. And the main doc

Verified resolution: [vinckr (top answer)] You need Ory Hydra if you want to become a OAuth2 provider yourself. What you are looking for is Ory Kratos, a user management system. You can also implement "Login with..." for multiple providers. Check out this article for more info if you need OAuth2: The "5 minute tutorial" does not really touch any underlying concepts, but there are multiple links to the docs that explain this. Here is a good starting point: https://www.ory.sh/hydra/docs/concepts/oauth2

Source URL: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65406722