Oauth

Question 1

What is Oauth 2.0?

Answer 1

Oauth 2.0 is an authorisation protocol that is primarily designed as a means of granting access to a set of resources.

Question 2

What is the resource owner?

Answer 2

The resource owner is the user or system that owns the protected resources and can grant access to them.

Question 3

What is the client?

Answer 3

The client is the system that requires access to the protected resource, to access resources the client must hold the appropriate access token.

Question 4

What is the Authorisation server?

Answer 4

The server receives requests from the client for access tokens and issues them upon successful authentication and consent by the resource owner.

Question 5

What endpoints does the Authorisation sever expose?

Answer 5

The authorisation server exposes the authorisation endpoint and the token endpoint.

Question 6

What does the authorisation endpoint do?

Answer 6

The authorisation endpoint handles the interactive authentication and consent of the user.

Question 7

What does the token endpoint do?

Answer 7

The token endpoint is involved in a machine to machine interaction.