Jeff Escalante 9111a519a2 [website] Link Cleaning (#8205)
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Co-authored-by: Calvin Leung Huang <cleung2010@gmail.com>
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layout: docs
page_title: Vault Agent Auto-Auth JWT Method
sidebar_title: JWT
description: JWT Method for Vault Agent Auto-Auth
---
# Vault Agent Auto-Auth JWT Method
The `jwt` method reads in a JWT from a file and sends it to the [JWT Auth
method](/docs/auth/jwt). Since JWTs often have
limited lifetime, it constantly watches for a new JWT to be written, and when
found it will immediately ingress this value, delete the file, and use the new
JWT to perform a reauthentication.
## Configuration
- `path` `(string: required)` - The path to the JWT file
- `role` `(string: required)` - The role to authenticate against on Vault