openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: CyberArk Conjur Secrets Manager Authentication API
  description: Conjur Secrets Manager is CyberArk's machine-identity and secrets management platform, available as Conjur Open Source, Conjur Enterprise (Self-Hosted), and Conjur Cloud (SaaS). The REST API enables authenticating hosts and users, loading and updating policies, storing and retrieving secrets, rotating credentials, managing public keys, and querying audit information. The canonical OpenAPI specification is published at github.com/cyberark/conjur-openapi-spec; this file is a curated profile of the most-used endpoints aligned with CyberArk Secrets Manager Self-Hosted and SaaS.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: CyberArk Developer
    url: https://developer.cyberark.com
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
servers:
- url: https://conjur.example.com
  description: Conjur Self-Hosted appliance (replace with appliance hostname)
- url: https://{tenant}.secretsmgr.cyberark.cloud/api
  description: Conjur Cloud tenant
  variables:
    tenant:
      default: tenant
      description: CyberArk Conjur Cloud tenant subdomain
security:
- ConjurAuth: []
tags:
- name: Authentication
  description: Authenticate hosts and users, exchange credentials for access tokens.
paths:
  /authn/{account}/login:
    get:
      tags:
      - Authentication
      summary: Get API key for user
      description: Exchange basic credentials for the user's API key, used as the password in subsequent /authenticate calls.
      operationId: login
      parameters:
      - name: account
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: API key returned as plain text.
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                type: string
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
  /authn/{account}/{login}/authenticate:
    post:
      tags:
      - Authentication
      summary: Get short-lived access token
      description: Exchange API key for a short-lived Conjur access token used in the Authorization header on subsequent calls.
      operationId: authenticate
      parameters:
      - name: account
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: login
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          text/plain:
            schema:
              type: string
              description: API key
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Conjur access token (Base64-encoded JSON).
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
components:
  securitySchemes:
    ConjurAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: ConjurAccessToken
externalDocs:
  description: Conjur OpenAPI Specification (canonical)
  url: https://github.com/cyberark/conjur-openapi-spec