X-Git-Url: https://git.arvados.org/arvados.git/blobdiff_plain/d2f9e7809bd1f63638600c7fc8189182c0f327c0..cf1dcfb8715822f7ac5fe4fce067197dd84bad54:/doc/api/tokens.html.textile.liquid diff --git a/doc/api/tokens.html.textile.liquid b/doc/api/tokens.html.textile.liquid index 72661c3f18..3437003a18 100644 --- a/doc/api/tokens.html.textile.liquid +++ b/doc/api/tokens.html.textile.liquid @@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ layout: default navsection: api title: API Authorization ... +{% comment %} +Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved. + +SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0 +{% endcomment %} All requests to the API server must have an API token. API tokens can be issued by going though the login flow, or created via the API. At this time, only browser based applications can perform login from email/password. Command line applications and services must use an API token provided via the @ARVADOS_API_TOKEN@ environment variable or configuration file. @@ -20,6 +25,10 @@ Browser based applications can perform log in via the following highlevel flow: The "browser authentication process is documented in detail on the Arvados wiki.":https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/wiki/Workbench_authentication_process +h2. User activation + +"Creation and activation of new users is described here.":{{site.baseurl}}/admin/activation.html + h2. Creating tokens via the API The browser login method above issues a new token. Using that token, it is possible to make API calls to create additional tokens. To do so, use the @create@ method of the "API client authorizations":{{site.baseurl}}/api/methods/api_client_authorizations.html resource.