PingAccess

Agent SDK for C 3.0 (April 2025)

RHEL 7 and SLES 12 deprecation

Info

As of Agent SDK for C 3.0, support for RHEL 7 and SLES 12 has been removed.

Create signed JWTs for agent authentication

New PASDKC-197

The agent SDK for C now supports authenticating PingAccess agents to the engine nodes with a bearer token.

To use bearer token authentication, you must upgrade to PingAccess 8.2 and either the PingAccess agent for Apache (RHEL) or the PingAccess agent for Apache (SLES) 3.0.

Compatibility for the other agent types will be added in a future release.

After you configure a compatible PingAccess agent with the updated agent.properties file and select Require Token Authentication in the agent’s configuration, the agent creates, signs, and sends a unique JWT for every authentication request.

The JWT expires after 2 minutes, so you must ensure you synchronize the agent and the PingAccess server’s clocks.