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Token-based Authentication

Application Scenario

For token-based authentication, you must obtain your token and add X-Auth-Token to the headers of API requests.

This section describes how to authorize API requests using tokens. For details about how to obtain a token, see Obtaining a User Token Through Password Authentication.

Procedure

  1. Send POST https://Endpoint of IAM/v3/auth/tokens to obtain the endpoint of Identity and Access Management (IAM) and the region name in the message body. For details, see Endpoints of IAM.
    Table 1 Endpoints of IAM

    Service Name

    Region Name

    Region

    Endpoint

    Protocol

    IAM

    CN North-Beijng1

    cn-north-1

    iam.cn-north-1.myhuaweicloud.com

    HTTPS

    CN South-Guangzhou

    cn-south-1

    iam.cn-south-1.myhuaweicloud.com

    HTTPS

    CN East-Shanghai2

    cn-east-2

    iam.cn-east-2.myhuaweicloud.com

    HTTPS

    CN Northeast-Dalian

    cn-northeast-1

    iam.cn-northeast-1.myhuaweicloud.com

    HTTPS

    All

    ALL

    iam.myhuaweicloud.com

    HTTPS

    CN-Hong Kong

    ap-southeast-1

    iam.ap-southeast-1.myhuaweicloud.com

    HTTPS
    Example request: 
    {
  "auth": {
    "identity": {
      "methods": [
        "password"
      ],
      "password": {
        "user": {
          "name": "username",//Replace the username as required.
          "password": "password",//Replace the password as required.
          "domain": {
            "name": "domainname"//Replace the domainname as required.
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "scope": {
      "project": {
        "name": "cn-north-1" //cn-north-1 indicates an IAM region. Replace it as required.

      }
    }
  }
}
  2. Obtain a token. After a response is returned, the value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the token value.
  3. Call a service API and add X-Auth-Token to the request header. The value of X-Auth-Token is the token value obtained in 2.
Parent topic: Using APIs