Using the term OAuth for an authentication flow that from a user perspective doesn't involve OAuth at all is confusing. PAT[0] is a fairly common term for a long-lived bearer token, used across platforms like GitHub, Azure, Bitbucket, Gitlab and identity systems like Zitadel.
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T349790 Improve OAuth 2 docs | |||
| Open | None | T253568 Make the terminology of OAuth UI and documentation easy to understand | |||
| Open | None | T142282 Improve consumer registration experience for bot owners (owner-only consumers) | |||
| Open | None | T440006 Rename owner-only OAuth clients to PAT tokens |