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Add password grant example
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testing that the token endpoint works), but to take advantage of all
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the features of our server we want to be able to create tokens for
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users. To get a token on behalf of a user of our app we need to be
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able to authenticate the user, which means we need a browser, so we
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might go the whole hog and create a test application.
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able to authenticate the user. If you were watching the logs carefully
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when the app started up you would have seen a random password being
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logged for the default Spring Boot user (per the
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http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current-SNAPSHOT/reference/htmlsingle/#boot-features-security[Spring
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Boot User Guide]). You can use this password to get a token on behalf of the user with id "user":
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```
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$ curl acme:acmesecret@localhost:8080/oauth/token -d grant_type=password -d username=user -d password=...
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{"access_token":"aa49e025-c4fe-4892-86af-15af2e6b72a2","token_type":"bearer","refresh_token":"97a9f978-7aad-4af7-9329-78ff2ce9962d","expires_in":43199,"scope":"read write"}
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```
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where "..." should be replaced with the actual password. This is
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called a "password" grant, where you exchange a username and password
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for an access token.
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Password grant is appropriate for a native or mobile application, and
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where you have a local user database to store and validate the
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credentials. For an app with "social" login, like ours, you need a
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browser to handle redirects and render the user interfaces from the
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external providers.
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== Creating a Client Application
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