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OAuth (Open Authorization) is an open standard that allows users to
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share their private resources (e.g. photos, videos, contact lists)
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stored on one site with another site without having to hand out their
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username and password.
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OAuth allows users to hand out tokens instead of usernames and
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passwords to their data hosted by a given service provider. Each
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token grants access to a specific site (e.g. a video editing site)
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for specific resources (e.g. just videos from a specific album) and
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for a defined duration (e.g. the next 2 hours).
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Thus OAuth allows a user to grant a third party site access to their
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information stored with another service provider, without sharing
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their access permissions or the full extent of their data.
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OAuth is a service that is complementary to but distinct from OpenID.
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