# Identity and Access Management

### Authentication

Security is critical to web services. All our API endpoints only respond to authenticated requests.

A request is considered authenticated when it carries a valid authentication token. Such a token can be requested from the authentication service by exchanging user login credentials.\
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After acquiring an authentication token, requests to other ExH services can be made by including this token in the request authorization header.

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The authentication service supports both oAuth 1.0 and oAuth 2.0 authentication mechanisms.
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[Auth Service](/extrahorizon/services/access-management/auth-service.md)
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### Authorization

The service endpoints that a user is allowed to use depend on the required permissions for a specific endpoint and the permissions that a user has been given through the roles assigned to that user (see below).

The required permissions for each endpoint can be found in the corresponding API reference documentation (Swagger)

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**Example:** To enable a user to trigger a task within the Task service, looking at the [API specification](https://swagger.extrahorizon.com/listing/?service=tasks-service\&redirectToVersion=1) they need to have the `CREATE_TASKS` permission
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[User service](/extrahorizon/services/access-management/user-service.md)
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