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Term · 25. Access Control — Additional Terms

Access Token AT

Term from Standard

Definition

Access token (AT) is an OAuth or similar authorization artifact that represents the client’s delegated access rights to specific protected resources, typically including scope, audience and expiry, and is presented to a resource server instead of user credentials.[6][9] In modern implementations an access token is often encoded as a structured security token such as a JWT or SAML assertion, but it may also be an opaque string whose semantics are only understood by the authorization server and resource server.[4][8] In midPoint integrations, access tokens commonly take the form of JWT- or SAML-based bearer tokens used to authenticate API calls and convey authorization claims between midPoint and external systems.[1][7]