diff --git a/extensions/guacamole-auth-openid/pom.xml b/extensions/guacamole-auth-openid/pom.xml
index 13de21497..89f5b6cbd 100644
--- a/extensions/guacamole-auth-openid/pom.xml
+++ b/extensions/guacamole-auth-openid/pom.xml
@@ -73,6 +73,28 @@
                 </executions>
             </plugin>
 
+            <!-- Assembly plugin - for easy distribution -->
+            <plugin>
+                <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.5.3</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <finalName>${project.artifactId}-${project.version}</finalName>
+                    <appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
+                    <descriptors>
+                        <descriptor>src/main/assembly/dist.xml</descriptor>
+                    </descriptors>
+                </configuration>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>make-dist-archive</id>
+                        <phase>package</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>single</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+
             <!-- Verify format using Apache RAT -->
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
diff --git a/extensions/guacamole-auth-openid/src/main/assembly/dist.xml b/extensions/guacamole-auth-openid/src/main/assembly/dist.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b89fd534c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extensions/guacamole-auth-openid/src/main/assembly/dist.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+    or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+    distributed with this work for additional information
+    regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+    to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+    "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+    with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+    software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+    "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+    KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+    specific language governing permissions and limitations
+    under the License.
+-->
+<assembly
+    xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0"
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.0.xsd">
+    
+    <id>dist</id>
+    <baseDirectory>${project.artifactId}-${project.version}</baseDirectory>
+
+    <!-- Output tar.gz -->
+    <formats>
+        <format>tar.gz</format>
+    </formats>
+
+    <!-- Include licenses and extension .jar -->
+    <fileSets>
+
+        <!-- Include licenses -->
+        <fileSet>
+            <outputDirectory></outputDirectory>
+            <directory>src/licenses</directory>
+        </fileSet>
+
+        <!-- Include extension .jar -->
+        <fileSet>
+            <directory>target</directory>
+            <outputDirectory></outputDirectory>
+            <includes>
+                <include>*.jar</include>
+            </includes>
+        </fileSet>
+
+    </fileSets>
+
+</assembly>