Introduce a REST API endpoint for validating authentication tokens #20936
Description
NetBox version
v4.4.7
Feature type
New functionality
Proposed functionality
Introduce a new authenticated REST API endpoint (e.g. /api/auth-check/) that simply returns the user to whom the authentication credentials belong. A successfully authenticated request would return a serialized representation of the user. Failed authentication would return a 403 as with any other endpoint.
Use case
With the complete removal of API token plaintext retrieval in NetBox v4.5 (per #20492), there is no longer any means for an administrator to query for a user given a token plaintext (perhaps captured in the course of troubleshooting). This endpoint provides that functionality.
Database changes
N/A
External dependencies
N/A