We all know the statements that Microsoft made about linux. They love Linux. They even wrote a blogpost about it. But that love falls short when you use Firefox on Linux. In my research on identity and access management, I have been exploring various login options. One of the approaches I tested is passwordless login using technologies like WebAuthn and YubiKey support. I experimented with this on various operating systems, browsers and Identity Providers, including Microsoft Entra ID.

Over the years Microsoft has released ceveral libraries for authentication. We had ADAL. It was ok at the time, but didn’t work with the Azure AD 2.0 authorization endpoints. After some time we got the MSAL library, but it took a while before it was usable. Now new libraries are on the horizon to make it easier for the developers. Well … the constant change of libraries doesn’t make it easier for developers.