Personal Access Tokens

You need to access the Ory administrative APIs if you want to:

• list,
• update or
• delete identities,
• use the Ory CLI to manage your project

To access administrative APIs at Ory you need to authenticate as an administrator. Ory offers Personal Access Tokens to make this process easier for development. You can use PATs to access the admin API from the command line or via scripts.

note

Ory's Personal Access Tokens are always prefixed with ory_pat_, making them easier to identify in code analysis.

Personal Access Tokens are bound to a project. They don't work for other projects than the one they have been created for.

Every member can create many, but not unlimited, personal access tokens. When creating a token you must give it a description to help you remember what you created the token for. It helps to name the token after the function it performs or after the person that uses it, but the name can be freely chosen.

The token is only displayed once upon creation. If you lose the token you will have to create a new one.

To see detailed instructions how to create and use Personal Access Tokens, refer to the Create Personal Access Tokens Guide.