Authentication

Token-based Authentication

Note

A token is valid for 24 hours. When using a token for authentication, cache it to prevent frequently calling the IAM API.

A token is used to acquire temporary permissions. During API authentication using a token, the token is added to a request to get permissions for calling the API.

To call an API to obtain a user token, you need to set auth.scope to project in the request body.

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

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

Content-Type: application/json
X-Auth-Token: ABCDEFJ....