Equivalent to a personal access token. Avoid pasting as plain text where it might be compromised. For a service user (recommended), you can find the user key in the Mend SCA App in **Admin > Users**.
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mend/main/json-schema/mend-login-model-dtov3-schema.json",
"title": "LoginModelDTOV3",
"description": "Login Model that provides user name and password for the Login process.",
"x-generated": "2026-10-04",
"x-method": "derived",
"x-generator": "derive-json-schema.py",
"x-source": "openapi/mend-access-management-api-openapi.yml#/components/schemas/LoginModelDTOV3",
"required": [
"email",
"userKey"
],
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"email": {
"title": "Email",
"type": "string"
},
"userKey": {
"title": "User Key",
"type": "string",
"description": "Equivalent to a personal access token. Avoid pasting as plain text where it might be compromised. For a service user (recommended), you can find the user key in the Mend SCA App in **Admin > Users**. [Learn more](https://docs.mend.io/bundle/mend_maintenance/page/managing_service_users.html). For local testing purposes, you could also use one of your own personal user keys from your user profile page in the Mend SCA App."
}
}
}
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