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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Authentication

Authentication

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform secures its APIs with apiKey, http, and oauth2 across 6 declared security schemes, as derived from its OpenAPI definitions. OAuth 2.0 is offered via the authorizationCode and password flow(s).

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Methods: apiKey, http, oauth2 Schemes: 6 OAuth flows: authorizationCode, password API key in: cookie, header

Security Schemes

cookieAuth apiKey

· in: cookie (sessionid)

oauth2 oauth2

· flows: authorizationCode

EDAJWTAuthentication apiKey

· in: header (X-DAB-JW-TOKEN)

Basic_Authentication http

scheme: basic

OAuth2_Authentication oauth2

· flows: authorizationCode, password

SessionAuthentication apiKey

· in: cookie (gateway_sessionid)

Source

Authentication Profile

generated: '2026-08-29'
method: derived
source: openapi/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-ansible-lightspeed-openapi.json, openapi/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-event-driven-ansible-openapi.json,
  openapi/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-platform-gateway-openapi.json
summary:
  types:
  - apiKey
  - http
  - oauth2
  api_key_in:
  - cookie
  - header
  oauth2_flows:
  - authorizationCode
  - password
schemes:
- name: cookieAuth
  type: apiKey
  in: cookie
  parameter: sessionid
  sources:
  - openapi/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-ansible-lightspeed-openapi.json
  - openapi/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-event-driven-ansible-openapi.json
- name: oauth2
  type: oauth2
  flows:
  - flow: authorizationCode
    authorizationUrl: /o/authorize/
    tokenUrl: /o/token/
    scopes: 3
  sources:
  - openapi/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-ansible-lightspeed-openapi.json
- name: EDAJWTAuthentication
  type: apiKey
  in: header
  parameter: X-DAB-JW-TOKEN
  sources:
  - openapi/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-event-driven-ansible-openapi.json
- name: Basic_Authentication
  type: http
  scheme: basic
  sources:
  - openapi/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-platform-gateway-openapi.json
- name: OAuth2_Authentication
  type: oauth2
  flows:
  - flow: authorizationCode
    authorizationUrl: /o/authorize/
    tokenUrl: /o/token/
    scopes: 2
  - flow: password
    tokenUrl: /o/token/
    scopes: 2
  sources:
  - openapi/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-platform-gateway-openapi.json
- name: SessionAuthentication
  type: apiKey
  in: cookie
  parameter: gateway_sessionid
  sources:
  - openapi/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-platform-gateway-openapi.json

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