What is a bearer access token?

Bearer Tokens are the predominant type of access token used with OAuth 2.0. A Bearer Token is an opaque string, not intended to have any meaning to clients using it . Some servers will issue tokens that are a short string of hexadecimal characters, while others may use structured tokens such as JSON Web Tokens.

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How does JWT Bearer Token work?

In short, JWTs are used as a secure way to authenticate users and share information. Typically, a private key, or secret, is used by the issuer to sign the JWT. The receiver of the JWT will verify the signature to ensure that the token hasn’t been altered after it was signed by the issuer .

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How do I get my Bearer Token?

Create tokens Tokens can be generated in one of two ways: If Active Directory LDAP or a local administrator account is enabled, then send a ‘POST /login HTTP/1.1’ API request to retrieve the bearer token . If Azure Active Directory (AAD) is enabled, then the token comes from AAD.

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