Generating an authentication cookie

Authentication is required for provisioning the IT resources. For this purpose, we will be required to generate an authentication cookie using the Authenticate User REST API. The details of the API are as follows:

API details	Description
API function	Authenticate supplied user credential and generate authentication cookie for use in the subsequent API calls.
Endpoint	`<RESTEndpoint captured in previous section>/authenticate/` Example: https://compute.eucom-north-1.oracleCloud.com/authenticate/
HTTP method	`POST`
Request header properties	`Content-Type:application/oracle-compute-v3+jsonAccept: application/oracle-compute-v3+json`
Request body	user: Two-part name of the user in the `format/Computeidentity_domain/user` password: Password for the specified `userSample` request:`{ "password": "xxxxx", "user": "/Compute-586113456/[email protected]" }`
Response header properties	set-cookie: Authentication cookie value

The following screenshot shows the authentication cookie generated by invoking the Authenticate User REST API via the Postman tool:

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