Resource Owner Password Credentials Grant

Recommended use

The resource owner password credentials grant type is suitable in cases where the resource owner has a trust relationship with the client (e.g., a service’s own mobile client) and in situations where client can obtain the resource owner’s credentials.

The flow

Instead of redirecting the user to the authorization server, the client itself will ask the user for the resource owner's username and password. The client will then send these credentials to the authorisation server along with the client’s own credentials.

The diagram below illustrates the resource owner password credentials grant flow.

Support for refresh token grant - Yes

The cURL commands below can be used to try this grant type.

curl -v -X POST -H "Authorization: Basic <base64 encoded client id:client secret value>" -k -d "grant_type=password&username=<username>&password=<password>" -H "Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded" https://localhost:9443/oauth2/token

curl -u <client id>:<client secret> -k -d "grant_type=password&username=<username>&password=<password>" -H "Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded" https://localhost:9443/oauth2/token

You will receive a response similiar to the format below. 

{"token_type":"Bearer","expires_in":2510,"refresh_token":"5ba3dedc77581df5f84f9b228eef0b91","access_token":"ca19a540f544777860e44e75f605d927"}