Overview#

OAuth 2.0 Actors are defined within the OAuth 2.0 RFCs

OAuth 2.0 Actors [1]

• Resource Owner - The End-User aka Subject - The Entity that is Delegating to an OAuth Client, access to a Resource Server.
• OAuth Client - An application that is a Relying Party that is requesting Authorization to act on the Resource Owner’s behalf to access the resources.
• Authorization Server (AS) - The Entity (STS) issuing Access Tokens and Refresh Tokens.
• Resource Server - The Entity hosting the Protected Resources. (Which may be an Application Programming Interface or API)

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• OAuth 2.0

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• [#1] - based loosely on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth - Retrieved 2013-03-29