How to Create Keycloak SSO Session Cookies During Direct Login (Password Grant)? #44414

goliudaykumar · 2025-11-24T07:32:38Z

goliudaykumar
Nov 24, 2025

Hello All,

            I am building an application where users first log in through my custom frontend using the Resource Owner Password Credentials Grant (grant_type=password). This login successfully returns access tokens, but no Keycloak SSO session cookies (KEYCLOAK_SESSION, KEYCLOAK_IDENTITY, AUTH_SESSION_ID, etc.) are created in the browser. Because of this, when I redirect the user to other Keycloak-protected applications (Grafana, Superset), they are still asked to log in again, since Keycloak does not detect an active browser session.

❓ My question:

            Is it possible to create a browser-based Keycloak SSO session cookie automatically when the user logs in using the password grant flow from my backend?

If not:

     * What is the recommended way to authenticate users without showing the Keycloak login screen, but still creating a proper Keycloak browser session?

     * Is there any supported method/API to programmatically establish a Keycloak SSO session after validating username/password through the backend?

Goal:

  * User logs in once through my custom frontend

  * Keycloak session cookies are created automatically

  * Superset / Grafana should not ask the user to log in again

Thank you!

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