MaxKey on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Overview

MaxKey is an open source, enterprise grade IAM and single sign on server. It provides a central place to manage who your users are and what they can reach: users authenticate once against MaxKey and then move between connected applications without signing in again. It speaks the standard protocols the rest of your estate already understands, including OAuth 2.x and OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, CAS, JWT and SCIM 2.0, so both modern and legacy applications can delegate their login to it.

Alongside single sign on, MaxKey covers the wider identity lifecycle: a web management console for administering organisations, users, groups, roles and connected applications, and an end user portal that presents each person with the applications they are entitled to. It supports multi factor authentication, one time passwords, social and LDAP or Active Directory sources, and detailed access auditing, making it a self hosted alternative to hosted identity platforms for teams that need to keep identity data under their own control.

Common uses

• Give staff one secure sign in across internal and SaaS applications with OpenID Connect, SAML or CAS.
• Run a self hosted identity provider that keeps user and access data under your own control.
• Add multi factor authentication and central access auditing in front of existing applications.

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.