Thinktecture IdentityManager vs IdentityServer

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Looking at http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/683732/Thinktecture-Identity-Server-Configuration-Customi and http://brockallen.com/2014/04/09/introducing-thinktecture-identitymanager/ , I am a bit confused about the relation between IdentityServer and IdentityManager.

The way I currently understand it is the following:

  • IdentityServer can be used as an STS, and to manage users.
  • IdentityManager can be used to manage users.

Are the above statements correct? Will the users-part be phased out of IdentityServer in the future?

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Dominick Baier (one of the authors of IdentityServer) posted this when announcing version 3:

while designing IdentityServer v3 we realized that we really also need a good solution for managing users, identity, claims etc – and that this should be ideally a separate project – so I’d also like to announce Thinktecture IdentityManager

You can read whole blog post here.

I don't know if users-part will be phased out of IdentityServer. The state now is that version 3 does not have GUI administration yet and all configuration is done in code. I am quite sure that Dominick and Brock Allen will eventually implement some web GUI for administration of idsrv but you should ask them maybe by opening a new issue here.

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I'm pretty sure IdentityManager is intended to be the GUI for IdentityServer v3+. Therefore, there won't be one built in, as in previous versions.