I'm tempted to say user created PATs are incompatible with OAuth, and OAuth
already has a solution which avoids the user having to manually create
these sorts of tokens. Is there a reason OAuth wouldn't be able to handle
the specific use case.

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On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 7:56 PM Takahiko Kawasaki <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Dhaura,
>
> My recommendation to you (undergraduate? LinkedIn says so) is to
> investigate the following as the first step.
>
>
>    - ID Token (OpenID Connect Core 1.0, Section 2)
>    - UserInfo Endpoint (OpenID Connect Core 1.0, Section 5.3)
>
>
> In general, inventing a new grant type should be the last resort.
>
> Best Regards,
> Takahiko Kawasaki
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 3:35 PM David Waite <david=
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 1, 2022, at 3:24 AM, Dhaura Pathirana <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I would like to know if anyone has seen this (listing token metadata) as
>> a common use case in OAuth2 and a standard way of doing it had been
>> proposed before?
>>
>>
>> OAuth Token Introspection (RFC 7662) defines a way to query for active
>> state and meta-info.
>>
>> However, its use is defined only for protected resources, and not the
>> resource owner or the client the token was issued to.
>>
>> -DW
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