OAuth 2 authentication – Need to generate an accessToken from backend

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    kendrago · Member ·

    Hi,

    Our usecase: We are working on backend application where we want to generate an accessToken from the backend only so that we could authenticate the APIs. We don’t want any human intervent

    1. We went through the OAuth2 API documentation where we observed that the password grant_type is available, but it is mentioned that as “This is meant for testing purposes only“.

    API Doc: https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/oauth2/

    Would you please let us know why we can’t use this in production? Will there be any issues if we use it?

    2. We also observed that there are other methods like Server / Code Authentication and Client/Implicit Oauth, but it needs a human intervention where we have to login on the website and provide a consent.

    Would you please suggest what should we use to generate the accessToken from the backend only?

    Thanks

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  • staff-totoro · Staff ·

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