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# Create User Auth Token

<table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th width="74.8046875" align="center"></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="center"><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>POST</strong></mark> </td><td>https://api.sfox.com/v1/enterprise/user-tokens/:user_id</td></tr></tbody></table>

Generate a user auth token for a specific end user.

***

User auth tokens are short-lived authentication tokens, expiring 24 hours after creation (expiration of a given token specified in the `expires` field of the response). User auth tokens are used for actions specific to a user's account (e.g. Initiate an ACH Deposit, Create an Order).&#x20;

{% hint style="info" %}
sFOX recommends that you do not store user auth tokens. Instead, create a new user auth token as needed whenever executing requests on behalf of a specific user.

There is no limit to the number of user auth tokens that may be created.

You can create user auth tokens for multiple users using [Create Multiple User Auth Tokens](/connect/rest-api/end-users/create-multiple-user-auth-tokens.md) requests.
{% endhint %}

## Request

### Path Parameters

<table><thead><tr><th width="199.6875">Parameter</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>user_id</code> <br><mark style="color:red;">required</mark>, string</td><td>ID of the specific user you want to create a user auth token for.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Example Requests

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Shell" %}

<pre class="language-shell" data-line-numbers><code class="lang-shell">export userId="156c5beb-7c9f-4f68-83c0-9479703ac490"

curl -X POST \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ${ENTERPRISE_API_KEY}" \
<strong>"https://api.sfox.com/v1/enterprise/user-tokens/${userId}"
</strong></code></pre>

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="NodeJS" %}
{% code lineNumbers="true" %}

```javascript
const axios = require('axios');

const userId = "156c5beb-7c9f-4f68-83c0-9479703ac490"

const config = {
  method: 'post',
  url: `https://api.sfox.com/v1/enterprise/user-tokens/${userId}`,
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    'Authorization': `Bearer ${process.env.ENTERPRISE_API_KEY}`
  }
}

axios(config)
  .then(response => {
    console.log(response.status)
    console.log(response.data)
  }).catch(err => {
    console.error(err.response.status)
    console.error(err.response.data)
  });
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}
{% code lineNumbers="true" %}

```python
import requests
import os

userId = "156c5beb-7c9f-4f68-83c0-9479703ac490"

data = requests.post(
  f"https://api.sfox.com/v1/enterprise/user-tokens/{userId}",
  headers={
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['ENTERPRISE_API_KEY']}"
  }
)
print(data.status_code)
print(data.json())
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

## Response&#x20;

### Response Fields

<table><thead><tr><th width="199.9833606051543">Field</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>data</code><br>object</td><td>User auth token information.</td></tr><tr><td>    <code>token</code><br>    string</td><td>The user authentication token that you will use to access this specific user's sFOX account</td></tr><tr><td>    <code>partner_user_id</code><br>    string</td><td>The <code>user_id</code> the token grants access to.</td></tr><tr><td>    <code>expires</code><br>    string</td><td>The expiration date of the user auth token. ISO-8601 date and time in UTC time zone.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Responses

<details>

<summary><mark style="color:green;">201</mark> Created</summary>

{% code title="User auth token for a single user\_id" overflow="wrap" lineNumbers="true" %}

```json
{
    "data": {
        "token": "bcf5ab0aa8dfebc86460338514dd022d63080277373002e6986d7925375a0087",
        "partner_user_id": "client_db29326e-5df6-4d8b-aaaa-b75dc194a0a2",
        "expires": "2024-05-14T19:22:09.901Z"
    }
}
```

{% endcode %}

</details>


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