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cike
Champion
10 years ago

Authenticate technical user via REST API while SSO is enabled

Hey guys,   I'm using SSO to authenticate users within a community, but I also want to use technical users (non-SSO) to make requests via REST API. As I read here https://community.lithium.com/t5/C...
  • OlivierS's avatar
    OlivierS
    10 years ago
    cike

    Does your user have the API privileges?
    And are you sure about the password?

    Also make sure you don't have 2 users with the same username ...
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OlivierS
Lithium Alumni (Retired)
10 years ago

cike 

 

For non SSO user, what worked for me was.

 

1- get the token

 

http://<url>/restapi/vc/authentication/sessions/login/?user.login=<yourNonSSOuser>&user.password=<yourpassword>

 

2- then use the token returned by the first call (valid for 20 minutes) with the sso.authentication_token property


http://<url>/restapi/vc/users/id/43/settings/?sso.authentication_token=<TokenReturnedEarlier>

 

If it doesn't work for you, feel free to drop me a PM with your community / user details and I will give it a go

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    cike
    Champion
    10 years ago

    OlivierS 

     

    My current problem is that I don't get the token for the user's session. The request fails with error code 302 "User authentication failed".