Create a service account token

POST /_security/service/{namespace}/{service}/credential/token/{name}

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Create a service accounts token for access without requiring basic authentication.

NOTE: Service account tokens never expire. You must actively delete them if they are no longer needed.

Required authorization

Name	Type
`namespace` required The name of the namespace, which is a top-level grouping of service accounts.	type TypesNamespace = string
`service` required The name of the service.	type TypesService = string
`name` required The name for the service account token. If omitted, a random name will be generated. Token names must be at least one and no more than 256 characters. They can contain alphanumeric characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9), dashes (`-`), and underscores (`_`), but cannot begin with an underscore. NOTE: Token names must be unique in the context of the associated service account. They must also be globally unique with their fully qualified names, which are comprised of the service account principal and token name, such as `<namespace>/<service>/<token-name>`.	type TypesName = string

Name	Type
`refresh` If `true` (the default) then refresh the affected shards to make this operation visible to search, if `wait_for` then wait for a refresh to make this operation visible to search, if `false` then do nothing with refreshes.	type TypesRefresh = "true" \| "false" \| "wait_for"

200 application/json

{ created: boolean;token:

SecurityCreateServiceTokenToken

interface SecurityCreateServiceTokenToken {
name: TypesName;
value: string;
}

; }