On 2020-05-10 10:20 a.m., Aaron Parecki wrote:

> Hi Beena,
>
> This sounds like a great use of the client credentials grant. The
> password grant is being removed from OAuth 2.0 by the Security Best
> Current Practice. Can you clarify what you've found useful about the
> password grant that the client credentials grant doesn't solve?

One nice benefit of the password grant, is that client_id is a nice,
general way to trace what application did the log in. Handy for audit
logs and if we ever find a security issue we could hypothetically
invalidate all passwords used by the client_id that introduced the issue.

The alternative is to introduce a custom parameter, but this is unlikely
to work easily with existing OAuth2 implementations.

So, I will miss "password".

Evert

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