# OpenAM Administration Guide
Chapter 13. Managing OAuth 2.0 Authorization

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## 13.1. About OAuth 2.0 Support in OpenAM

RFC 6749, The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework, provides a standard way for resource owners to grant client applications access to the owners' web-based resources. The canonical example involves a user (resource owner) granting access to a printing service (client) to print photos that the user has stored on a photo-sharing server.

The section describes how OpenAM supports the OAuth 2.0 authorization framework in terms of the roles that OpenAM plays.[8] The following sequence diagram indicates the primary roles OpenAM can play in the OAuth 2.0 protocol flow.

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[8] Read RFC 6749 to understand the authorization framework itself.