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What are claims and scopes?
Simply put: Claims are assertions that one subject (e.g. a user or an Authorization Server) makes about itself or another subject. Scopes are groups of claims.
What are claims in OAuth?
Claims are name/value pairs that contain information about a user. So an example of a good scope would be “read_only”. Whilst an example of a claim would be “email”: “[email protected]”.
Does ID token contain scope?
Scopes and Claims The ID Token is populated with (some of) the claims corresponding to the scopes authorized for the request. So if a client needs certain data in the ID Token it has two options: Request the scope that is mapped to the claim or set of claims needed. Request the claim specifically.
What is OpenID scope in oauth2?
Scopes are a concept used in the OAuth 2.0 specification to specify the access privileges when issuing an Access Token. As OpenId Connect (OIDC) is built upon OAuth 2.0 and has a notion of scopes, which in this case, specifies the information returned about the authenticated user.
What does the scope look like in OpenID Connect?
However, just stating “openid” in the scope is equivalent to requesting this claim set. If you need to specify in finer grain, you have to use request object so that the “id_token” claim will look like:
What are claims and tokens in OpenID Connect?
Simply put, claims are name/value pairs that contain information about a user, as well meta-information about the OIDC service. Here’s typical set of claims: A number of the profile claims are included above. That’s because the request for the user’s info was made using a token that was obtained with the profile scope.
What are the required scope identifiers for OIDC?
Valid scope identifiers are specified in RFC 6749. OIDC has a number of built in scope identifiers. openid is a required scope. All others – including custom scopes – are optional. The built-in scopes are: The default profile claims are:
What is the use of the OpenID request object?
OpenID Request Object. The OpenID Request Object is used to provide OpenID request parameters that MAY differ from the default ones. Implementing support for the OpenID Request Object is OPTIONAL. Supporting it is necessary for implementations that need to request or provide sets of Claims other than the default UserInfo, and ID Token Claim sets.