Pensando Authentication

generated: '2026-07-20'
method: searched
source: github.com/pensando/pypi README + PSM Python SDK configuration module
api: AMD Pensando Policy and Services Manager (PSM) REST API
docs: https://github.com/pensando/pypi/blob/main/README.md
summary: >-
  The PSM REST API is authenticated per-appliance. The official Python bindings
  authenticate via a local PSM credential/config file (~/.psm/config.json) that
  carries the PSM endpoint and credentials; an interactive login mode is also
  supported. TLS verification is configurable (verify_ssl) because PSM appliances
  are commonly deployed with self-signed certificates. There is no public,
  multi-tenant OAuth surface — auth is scoped to a customer's own PSM deployment.
schemes:
- type: appliance-credential
  mechanism: local config file
  detail: >-
    Configuration(psm_config_path=~/.psm/config.json, interactive_mode=True);
    credentials and PSM endpoint are read from the local config, or supplied
    interactively at runtime.
- type: tls
  mechanism: https
  detail: >-
    All PSM API traffic is HTTPS. verify_ssl is configurable in the client to
    accommodate self-signed appliance certificates.
notes: >-
  Auth details are documented via the SDK rather than a public hosted auth page;
  the authoritative live docs are served from a running PSM instance at
  https://<PSM-IP>/docs. No public OpenAPI/Swagger securitySchemes were available
  to derive from, so no OAuth scopes artifact is emitted.