Overview
User, Session, Client resources and mechanics explained
Aidbox has a SCIM User Resource.
Attributes:
element | type | description |
|---|---|---|
id | string | |
email | string | |
password | string | Hash of password |
identifier | Identifier[] | |
userName | | |
To create user you can use CRUD API, e.g.
POST /User and PUT /User/Human User can use /auth/login to log in with credentials defined in a User resource
System can authenticate a User as it is specified in OAuth 2.0 spec. For example, you can get access token via
POST /auth/token
client_id: password-client
grant_type: password
username: [email protected]
password: password
Note for such authentification a Client resource should be created
You can find different authorization flow examples in the Auth Sandbox in the Aidbox ui
GET /auth/userinfo returns info about current User sessionTo control User active status you can change
User.inactive attribute by setting true or false value. Deactivating user doesn't affect Session's activation.For each user login Aidbox creates Session resource
Get last 10 sessions
select cts, resource#>>'{user,id}'
from session
order by cts desc
limit 10
Basically, all sessions stored in Aidbox are infinite, and you have to manage session expiration by yourself manually.
However since Aidbox v:2205
Session.exp field was added. It represents NumericDate from RFC7519 and it identifies the expiration time after which the Session will not be accepted for processing.You can specify
auth.*.access_token_expiration (in seconds) on Client resource, so Session.exp field will be propagated once corresponding grant_type is used to launch a Session.To provide programmatic access to Aidbox you have to register a
Client resource.A Client can have the audience attribute. The audience shows what resource server access is intended for. Aidbox compares the audience of the Client to the audience it receives within aJWT and decides if the access should be granted.The
audience attribute can be defined in 2 ways:- As a plain string. For example,
https://cmpl.aidbox.app/smart - As a
Regex. In that case, theaudiencevalue should start with the#symbol. For example,#https://cmpl.aidbox.app/tenant/[^\]/smart
That validation of the
audience happens when SMART on FHIR app launchesClient resource must have grant_types attribute defining authentification scheme for this Client.Application grant types (or flows) are methods through which applications can gain Access Tokens and by which you grant limited access to your resources to another entity without exposing credentials.
Grant types are choosed appropriately based on the
grant_types property of your Auth0-registered Application. The OAuth 2.0 protocol supports several types of grants, which allow different types of access. To see available grant types and grant type mapping refer to the doc.Other required attributes are determined based on the values of this attribute
grant_types is an array of strings, possible values are:- basic
- client_credentials
- password
- implicit
- authorization_code
- code
You can find different authorization flow examples in the Auth Sandbox in the Aidbox ui