Reviewed-by: Boka, Ladislav <ladislav.boka@t-systems.com> Co-authored-by: Ru, Li Yi <liyiru7@huawei.com> Co-committed-by: Ru, Li Yi <liyiru7@huawei.com>
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Authentication
Token authentication is required to call APIs.
Authentication using tokens: General requests are authenticated using tokens.
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:
1 2 3 | POST https://{{Endpoint}}/v3/auth/projects Content-Type: application/json X-Auth-Token: ABCDEFJ.... |