Email address for M2M connection

[mikeburke106]

Hello. I have developed a NodeJS application that is heavily dependent on knowing information about the logged-in user. For session authentication, I am using request.oidc.user.email to retreive the logged-in user’s email. However, for M2M authentication, this value is undefined.

Is there some other way I can get the M2M’s logged-in email address to use in the application?

[wayne.lim]

Hello @mikeburke106 ,

Welcome to the Community!

When using M2M, client credentials grant is used which authenticates the client (application). There is no user involved in this flow.

This question is very similar to a post in the Community and I am attaching for your reference.

Add user's email to accessToken using m2m login

Hi there @barriaandradedaniel sorry for the delayed response, but welcome to the community! Given that this is an m2m communication (client credentials), there isn’t any user involved and therefore no email. You’ll want to look into using a different authentication/authorization flow and application type - These are outlined here: Our documentation on common architecture scenarios could be helpful as well: Hope this helps!

Hope this info helps and do let me know if you have other questions.

Thanks!