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Answer by Spomky-Labs for OAuth vs OpenID: confused about when to use one of...

You are right: lot of authorization servers based on OAuth2 provides a way to authenticate. But OAuth2 is not designed for that purpose.In an OAuth2 context, the client has just an access token to...

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OAuth vs OpenID: confused about when to use one of these and why

So these days I was reading about OpenID and OAuth2. I've seen some questions (this and this), but from what I've read you can use OAuth and for authentication, not just for authorization. On the...

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