Authentication

Token-based Authentication

The validity period of a token is 24 hours. If a token is required, the system caches the token to avoid frequent calling.

A token specifies temporary permissions in a computer system. Token-based authentication adds a token in a request as its header during API calling to obtain the permissions for operating APIs on IAM.

{ 
     "auth": { 
         "identity": { 
             "methods": [ 
                 "password" 
             ], 
             "password": { 
                 "user": { 
                     "name": "username", 
                     "password": "********", 
                     "domain": { 
                         "name": "domainname" 
                     } 
                 } 
             } 
         }, 
         "scope": { 
             "project": { 
                 "name": "xxxxxxxx" 
             } 
         } 
     } 
 }

In Making an API Request, the process of calling the API used to obtain a user token is described.

After obtaining the token, add the X-Auth-Token header in a request to specify the token when calling other APIs. For example, if the token is ABCDEFJ...., X-Auth-Token: ABCDEFJ.... can be added to a request as follows:

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POST https://{{Endpoint}}/v3/auth/projects
Content-Type: application/json
X-Auth-Token: ABCDEFJ....