Services and Operations > Security service

Security service

The Security service provides operations necessary to authenticate library users and initiate user sessions for privileged operations.

The Security service includes these operations (listed alphabetically):

Operation

Description

authenticateUser

Determines if the specified user is valid based on the user’s login and password.

getPassthroughToken

SirsiDynix internal use.

loginUser

Creates a new Web Services session for the specified user. Also returns an actual Symphony userID required for all user-specific operations.

logoutUser

Terminates the specified Web Services session.

lookupUserInfo

Displays information for a specified user. The session user must be an accountability operator to request accountability info.

This is a privileged request (it requires sessionToken).

This section also includes elements that are referenced in these Security service operation responses (see Referenced elements).

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