Access Delegation - Overview¶

With delegated access control mechanisms, the owner of a set of resources can delegate access to some of those resources to a designated client application, without enabling the client application to impersonate the user. The following topics discuss the various features that are key to delegated access control.

• Authorization Code Grant

• Implicit Grant

• Client Credentials Grant

• Password Grant

• Microprofile JWT

• SAML2 Bearer Assertion Profile

• Encrypt ID Tokens