auth
9 pagesAuth concepts
This page describes basic concepts and glossary commonly referred to when working with authentication and authorization.
Auth reference
In some cases, you want to locally develop and test against a secured API in the development environments. You will need a token to access said API.
Authentication and authorization
Services and addons to support authentication and authorization in your applications.
Entra ID
Entra ID (formerly known as Azure Active Directory, Azure AD or AAD) is a cloud-based identity and access management service provided by Microsoft.
ID-porten
ID-porten is the standard authentication service used by Norwegian citizens to access public services.
Log in users
This guide shows you how to log in users to your application with the login proxy. Before you begin, ensure that you have:
Maskinporten
Enabling service-to-service authorization between organizations and businesses using Maskinporten.
TokenX
TokenX is Nais' own implementation of OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange. This allows internal applications to act on behalf of a citizen that originally authenticated with ID-porten, while maintaining the…
Workload Identity
All workloads on Nais have their own identities. In practice, this is a Kubernetes Service Account. Workloads on Nais are automatically injected with a short-lived OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity…