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# ASPasswordCredentialIdentity

A description that uniquely identifies a particular password credential.

```
class ASPasswordCredentialIdentity
```

## Topics

### Creating a credential identity

[`identityWithServiceIdentifier:user:recordIdentifier:`](/documentation/AuthenticationServices/ASPasswordCredentialIdentity/identityWithServiceIdentifier:user:recordIdentifier:)

Creates and returns a password credential identity object with a service identifier.

[`init(serviceIdentifier:user:recordIdentifier:)`](/documentation/AuthenticationServices/ASPasswordCredentialIdentity/init(serviceIdentifier:user:recordIdentifier:))

Initializes a password credential identity.

[`ASCredentialServiceIdentifier`](/documentation/AuthenticationServices/ASCredentialServiceIdentifier)

An identifier representing a particular service for which the user needs a credential, like a web site.

### Ordering credential identities

[`rank`](/documentation/AuthenticationServices/ASPasswordCredentialIdentity/rank)

An indicator that enables you to prioritze credential identities relative to each other.

### Associating a user

[`user`](/documentation/AuthenticationServices/ASPasswordCredentialIdentity/user)

The username associated with the credential.

### Distinguishing identities

[`recordIdentifier`](/documentation/AuthenticationServices/ASPasswordCredentialIdentity/recordIdentifier)

A string used to correlate this identity to a record in your app’s own database.

[`serviceIdentifier`](/documentation/AuthenticationServices/ASPasswordCredentialIdentity/serviceIdentifier)

An identifier that helps the system know with which apps or websites to associate this credential.


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