# Microsoft Entra ID 8 Hacker News commenters recommended Microsoft Entra ID and 26 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Recommended for reliable enterprise sign-in and cross-platform deployment, though critics cite phishing exposure and recurring design-level security bugs. ## Why people recommend it - Reliable authentication in practice (2 comments): "AD/Entra is pretty good in my experience working with it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46318150)) "simply enjoying the reliable authentication everywhere" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934528)) - Good for cross-platform cloud deployment (2 comments): "Microsoft has definitely made it easier for cross-platform deployment with Entra ID" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322196)) "They're great at some cloud stuff (AAD/EntraID/Office/MDM)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411265)) ## What people warn about - Design-level security bugs and phishing risk (3 comments): "One of the reasons Entra is so easily phishable is Microsoft uses like 500 different domains for their cloud platform" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49810274)) "Entra ID is full of design-level bugs that allow full tenant takeover" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760060)) "Entra ID is full of disastrous design-level bugs like this one." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734987)) - Sign-in problems with passkeys and sessions (3 comments): "there's no way for me to actually pass the passkey to Entra, so I end up clicking things multiple times" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50098160)) "have you tried logging into your EntraID Microsoft Teams for Xbox account lately?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293606)) "at one point even private browser mode would still have me logged in to Entra ID" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47439106)) - Partial outages and eventual consistency (2 comments): "The cloud services each had partial outages where I was met with 'Data not available at this time'" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028665)) "We build polling where we polled Entra Id for minutes until it became “eventually” consistent" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624528)) - Missing dynamic client registration support (2 comments): "I COULD in theory support dynamic client registration, but of course Microsoft Entra doesn't." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595427)) "Entra ID doesn't support DCR, and the state of the ecosystem here is suboptimal." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595517)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Keycloak](https://hackerapproved.com/p/keycloak.md): 44 recommend - [Authentik](https://hackerapproved.com/p/authentik.md): 14 recommend - [FreeIPA](https://hackerapproved.com/p/freeipa.md): 14 recommend - [Okta](https://hackerapproved.com/p/okta.md): 11 recommend - [Microsoft Entra](https://hackerapproved.com/p/microsoft-entra.md): 8 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/identity-access/microsoft-entra-id) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Microsoft Entra ID", https://hackerapproved.com/p/microsoft-entra-id/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).