<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: programmancer</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=programmancer</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:08:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=programmancer" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by programmancer in "Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am currently trying to use Microsoft Entra ID auth for an MCP server I'm implementing, and I genuinely feel like I must be an idiot.<p>- I can use the `WWW-Authenticate` header to indicate a resource metadata URL for the client.<p>- I can use this to indicate an authorization server (Microsoft Entra) and a scope (for the app registration that handle which app roles each user is given to differentiate different capabilities for different users).<p>- I can NOT indicate a client_id, because that's just something that each client (agent) makes up on its own?<p>- To initiate a login on the .../authorize URL in Microsoft Entra, you need to pass a known client_id that matches an app registration in Microsoft Entra. Whatever the client makes up will surely not match anything in Microsoft Entra.<p>- I COULD in theory support dynamic client registration, but of course Microsoft Entra doesn't.<p>Is it even possible to make this work out of the box? The only way forward I can see is implementing my own dynamic client registration shim in front of Microsoft Entra that just returns the same static client_id to everyone, which matches an actual client_id in Microsoft Entra.<p>But surely this protocol actually works today for real Enterprises without workarounds? It feels like I must be missing something obvious.</p>
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