Ads some additional notes to the coreservices docs to just nudge people in the right direction
Signed-off-by: Peter Macdonald <macdonald.peter90@gmail.com>
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description: Documentation for the Identity service
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:::note Note
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This service is deprecated, you are likely looking for the [Auth Service](./auth.md) instead. If you're wondering how to get the user's entity ref and ownership claims in your backend plugin, you should see the [User Info Service](./user-info.md) documentation.
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When working with backend plugins, you might find that you will need to interact with the `auth-backend` plugin to both authenticate backstage tokens, and to deconstruct them to get the user's entity ref and/or ownership claims out of them.
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## Using the service
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Specifically, it can be used to extract the ownership entity refs for a user
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principal.
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See also the [`auth`](./auth.md) and [`httpAuth`](./http-auth.md) services for
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general credentials handling.
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:::note Note
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Please also refer to [`auth`](./auth.md) and [`httpAuth`](./http-auth.md) services for
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general credentials handling which is a prerequisite for the below examples.
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## Using the Service
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