Talk:Access token

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Please add the sections and info for Linux, Solaris, Mac OS, and whichever notable OS you can think of.--soum ^talk 19:15, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How can such a generic term as "access token" be specific to Windows? --Mortense (talk) 17:51, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are so right. Most notably, the concept of access tokens as used in OAuth could be described. Unfortunately, I am a newby in this area and do not dare write about it! Gpermant (talk) 15:35, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the concept of "access token" is much broader. As I understand it, they may pertain to any software system. DavidCJames (talk) 19:51, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

this whole article needs to be rewritten, it doesn't really describe what a user token is at all, it just describes how windows uses user tokens BigTandy (talk) 05:29, 20 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest adding precision in the article title, I dont know if this may be relevant for windows but it is definitively too broad Raphael.audet (talk) 10:55, 15 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Link to RFC6750 definitely should be there, since it describes OAuth implementation of access tokens, most common one. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6750 Iambackend (talk) 14:44, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]