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hey team, nice to meet you. i'm playing around with oauth2 from ORY IDP and i'm trying to create an identity over REST API based on this <https://www.ory.sh/docs/kratos/manage-identities/create-users-identities> with a token generated by /oauth2/token based on this <https://www.ory.sh/docs/oauth2-oidc/client-credentials>. i keep getting this response: {
    "error": {
        "code": 401,
        "status": "Unauthorized",
        "request": "c2d0eae0-5b79-93bd-bc66-27b8cd92c90d",
        "reason": "Access token is not active",
        "message": "Access credentials are invalid"
    }
}

Hello <@U08J3SKSUMQ>,

to use the admin API you need to create an API key as described here: <https://www.ory.sh/docs/concepts/personal-access-token#creating-api-keys>

Using an OAuth2 client to create client credentials tokens is a completely different service and flow - it has nothing to do with the internal admin API of Ory.

You're right, I figured it out at some point yesterday evening when I was browsing through the docs. Thanks for confirming it.