---
title: "Authenticate"
method: GET
path: "/v1/auth/{authentication_source}"
tags: ["AuthenticationService"]
---

# Authenticate

`GET /v1/auth/{authentication_source}`

Initiates an authentication request and returns a token along with the token expiration time for an authenticated user.

## Path parameters

- `authentication_source` string, required

## Query parameters

- `key` string
- `secret` string

## Response `200`

A successful response.

- V1AuthenticationResponse — Response to the request includes a token and the token expiration time for an authenticated user.
  - `authentication_source` string
  - `expiration_time` string, date-time
  - `token` string
  - `user` V1User — User represents a user in the system. Mostly includes configuration parameters that are user wise.
    - `meta` V1Meta, required — Common fields for all Endor Labs resources.
      - `annotations` object — Annotations can be used to attach metadata to a resource message. Annotation values can be small or large, structured or unstructured, and may include characters not permitted by labels. The keys may contain alphanumerics, underscores (_), dots (.) and dashes (-). The values of an annotation must be 16384 bytes or smaller.
      - `create_time` string, date-time — Time the resource was created. Format: 2017-01-15T01:30:15.01Z RFC 3339: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt.
      - `created_by` string — Name and authentication source of the user who created the object, for example, ewok@endor.ai@google@api-key.
      - `description` string — Resource description. Must be less than 1024 bytes.
      - `index_data` V1IndexData — IndexData is used to index the resource for search. It's an internal object.
        - `data` string[]
        - `search_score` number, float — search_score is the score of the resource for search. Internal use only.
        - `tenant` string
        - `will_be_deleted_at` string, date-time — Time that the resource will be deleted.
      - `kind` string — Resource kind, for example, HelloResponse. Auto-generated using the protobuf message proto.MessageName().Name().
      - `name` string, required — Resource name. Must be 63 characters or less.
      - `parent_kind` string — Parent object resource kind, for example, Project.
      - `parent_uuid` string — Parent object UUID.
      - `references` object — Map of objects referenced in a query API.
      - `tags` string[] — List of tags attached to the resource. Tags can be used to select objects and to find collections of objects that satisfy certain conditions. A tag must be 255 characters or less.
      - `update_time` string, date-time — Time the resource was last updated. Note: Updated on all create/patch/delete operations. Format: 2017-01-15T01:30:15.01Z RFC 3339: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt.
      - `updated_by` string — Name and authentication source of the last user who updated the object, for example, vulnerabilityingestor@endor.ai@x509.
      - `upsert_time` string, date-time — Time the resource was last upserted. Note: create_time is only set the first time the resource is created. upsert_time is set every time the resource is upseted. Format: 2017-01-15T01:30:15.01Z RFC 3339: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt.
      - `version` string — Message version.
    - `spec` V1UserSpec
      - `email` string — Email of the user. It can be changed.
      - `event_tracking` object — Lists of user events indexed by event type.
      - `first_name` string — First name of the user as identified. It can be changed.
      - `groups` string[] — Groups that the user is a member of, as identified by the claims returned by the identity provider.
      - `last_login_time` string, date-time — Last login time keeps a record of the last time that the user logged in.
      - `last_name` string — Last name of the user. It can be changed.
      - `token_hash` string — The hash of the last token issued to the user. During authentication we make sure that this hash matches the token provided.
      - `user_name` string
    - `uuid` string — The UUID of a user.

## Other responses

- `default` — An unexpected error response.

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