distribution/docs/spec/auth/oauth.md

Docker Registry v2 authentication using OAuth2

This document describes support for the OAuth2 protocol within the authorization server. RFC6749 should be used as a reference for the protocol and HTTP endpoints described here.

Refresh token format

The format of the refresh token is completely opaque to the client and should be determined by the authorization server. The authorization should ensure the token is sufficiently long and is responsible for storing any information about long-lived tokens which may be needed for revoking. Any information stored inside the token will not be extracted and presented by clients.

Getting a token

POST /token

Headers

Authorization headers Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Post parameters

grant_type

(REQUIRED) Type of grant used to get token. When getting a refresh token using credentials this type should be set to "password" and have the accompanying basic auth header. Type "authorization_code" is reserved for future use for authenticating to an authorization server without having to send credentials directly from the client. When requesting an access token with a refresh token this should be set to "refresh_token".

service

(REQUIRED) The name of the service which hosts the resource to get access for. Refresh tokens will only be good for getting tokens for this service.

client_id

(REQUIRED) String identifying the client. This client_id does not need to be registered with the authorization server but should be set to a meaningful value in order to allow auditing keys created by unregistered clients. Accepted syntax is defined in [RFC6749 Appendix A.1](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#appendix-A.1)

access_type

(OPTIONAL) Access which is being requested. If "offline" is provided then a refresh token will be returned. Otherwise only a short lived access token will be returned. If the grant type is "refresh_token" this will only return the same refresh token and not a new one.

scope

(OPTIONAL) The resource in question, formatted as one of the space-delimited entries from the scope parameters from the WWW-Authenticate header shown above. This query parameter should be specified multiple times if there is more than one scope entry from the WWW-Authenticate header. The above example would be specified as: scope=repository:samalba/my-app:push. When requesting a refresh token the scopes may be empty since the refresh token will not be limited by this scope, only the provided short lived access token.

refresh_token

(OPTIONAL) The refresh token to use for authentication when grant type "refresh_token" is used.

Example getting refresh token

POST /token HTTP/1.1
Host: auth.docker.io
Authorization: ...
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

grant_type=password&service=hub.docker.io&client_id=dockerengine&access_type=offline

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{"refresh_token":"xT2s5VFNrbzZTMVExUmpwWVRsSklPbFJMTmtnNlMxUkxOanBCUVV0VU1Ga3d","access_token":"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.eyJhY2Nlc3MiOlt7InR5cGUiOiJyZXBvc2l0b3J5IiwibmFtZSI6ImRtY2dvd2FuL2hlbGxvLXdvcmxkIiwiYWN0aW9ucyI6WyJwdWxsIl19XSwiYXVkIjoicmVnaXN0cnkuZG9ja2VyLmlvIiwiZXhwIjoxNDU0NDM4Njc1LCJpYXQiOjE0NTQ0MzgzNzUsImlzcyI6ImF1dGguZG9ja2VyLmlvIiwianRpIjoiZXFrVmVsWWJtbW5KSDctNW53SEkiLCJuYmYiOjE0NTQ0MzgzNzUsInN1YiI6ImRtY2dvd2FuIn0"}

Example refreshing an Access Token

POST /token HTTP/1.1
Host: auth.docker.io
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_token=kas9Da81Dfa8&service=registry-1.docker.io&client_id=dockerengine&scope=repository:samalba/my-app:pull,push

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{"access_token":"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.eyJhY2Nlc3MiOlt7InR5cGUiOiJyZXBvc2l0b3J5IiwibmFtZSI6ImRtY2dvd2FuL2hlbGxvLXdvcmxkIiwiYWN0aW9ucyI6WyJwdWxsIl19XSwiYXVkIjoicmVnaXN0cnkuZG9ja2VyLmlvIiwiZXhwIjoxNDU0NDM4Njc1LCJpYXQiOjE0NTQ0MzgzNzUsImlzcyI6ImF1dGguZG9ja2VyLmlvIiwianRpIjoiZXFrVmVsWWJtbW5KSDctNW53SEkiLCJuYmYiOjE0NTQ0MzgzNzUsInN1YiI6ImRtY2dvd2FuIn0"}