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Revision as of 14:12, 3 February 2016
The gCube Authorization framework is a token based authorization system in a gCube-based infrastructure.
Token based authorization
The token is a meaningless string generated on request by the Authorization service for every entity belonging to the gCube-infrastructure (users or services). The token is passed in every call and is automatically propagated in the lower layers.
Configuration Overview
The service runs on a smartgears node.
It relies on a postgresSQL instance to store the created tokens.