diff --git a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
index 9f528c26d..8f6ed715b 100755
--- a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
+++ b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
@@ -1568,7 +1568,18 @@ hwinv => {
         disable =>  "Set to 'yes' or '1' to comment out this row.",
     },
 },
-
+token => {
+    cols => [qw(tokenid username expire comments disable)],
+    keys => [qw(tokenid)],
+    table_desc => 'The token of users for authentication.',
+    descriptions => {
+        tokenid => 'It is a UUID as an unified identify for the user.',
+        username => 'The user name.',
+        expire => 'The expire time for this token.',
+        comments => 'Any user-provided notes.',
+        disable =>  "Set to 'yes' or '1' to comment out this row.",
+    },
+},
 ); # end of tabspec definition
 
 
diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/xcatd.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/xcatd.pm
index ed76310dc..6dae1b684 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/xcatd.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/xcatd.pm
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ use xCAT::Table;
 use xCAT::MsgUtils;
 use Data::Dumper;
 use xCAT::NodeRange;
+use xCAT::Utils;
 #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 =head1    xCAT::XCATD
@@ -270,4 +271,67 @@ sub validate {
    xCAT::MsgUtils->message("S","Request matched no policy rule: peername=$peername, peerhost=$peerhost  ".$request->{command}->[0]);
   return 0;
 }
+
+my $tokentimeout = 86400;  # one day
+# this subroutine search the token table 
+# 1. find the existed token entry for the user and reset the expire time
+# 1.1. if not find existed token, create a new one and add it to token table
+# 2. clean up the expired token
+#
+# this subroutine is called after the account has been authorized 
+sub gettoken {
+    my $class=shift;
+    my $req = shift;
+
+    my $user = $req->{gettoken}->[0]->{username}->[0];
+    my $tokentb = xCAT::Table->new('token');
+    unless ($tokentb) {
+        return undef;
+    }
+    my $tokens = $tokentb->getAllEntries;
+    my $expiretime = time() + $tokentimeout;
+    foreach my $token (@{$tokens}) {
+        if ($token->{username} eq $user) {
+            #delete old token
+            $tokentb->delEntries({'tokenid'=>$token->{tokenid}});
+        } else {
+            #clean the expired token
+            if ($token->{expire} > $expiretime) {
+                $tokentb->delEntries({'tokenid'=>$token->{tokenid}});
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    
+    # create a new token for this request
+    my $uuid = xCAT::Utils->genUUID();
+    $tokentb->setAttribs({tokenid=>$uuid, username => $user}, {expire => $expiretime});
+    $tokentb->close();
+   
+    return ($uuid, $expiretime);
+}
+
+# verify the token has correct entry in token table and expire time is not exceeded.
+sub verifytoken {
+    my $class=shift;
+    my $req = shift;
+
+    my $tokenid = $req->{tokens}->[0]->{tokenid}->[0];
+    my $tokentb = xCAT::Table->new('token');
+    unless ($tokentb) {
+        return undef;
+    }
+    my $token = $tokentb->getAttribs({'tokenid' => $tokenid}, ('username', 'expire'));
+    if (defined ($token) && defined ($token->{'username'}) && defined ($token->{'expire'})) {
+        my $expiretime = time() + $tokentimeout;
+        if ($token->{'expire'} < time()) {
+            $tokentb->delEntries({'tokenid'=>$token->{tokenid}});
+            return undef;
+        } else {
+            return $token->{'username'};
+        }
+    } else {
+        return undef;
+    }
+}
+
 1;
diff --git a/xCAT-server/sbin/xcatd b/xCAT-server/sbin/xcatd
index 770ae13ab..3c881770f 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/sbin/xcatd
+++ b/xCAT-server/sbin/xcatd
@@ -2096,6 +2096,40 @@ sub service_connection {
             delete($req->{becomeuser}); #Remove it to keep it from view
         }
 
+        # If the request is to aquire a token for a specific account
+        if (defined $req->{gettoken}) {
+            # authencitate the username:password
+            $peername=becomeuser($req->{gettoken}->[0]->{username}->[0],
+                                 $req->{gettoken}->[0]->{password}->[0]);
+            my $resp;
+            if ($peername) {
+                # for a valid account, get a token
+                my ($tokenid, $exptime) = xCAT::xcatd->gettoken($req);
+                my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year) = localtime($exptime);
+                $year += 1900;
+                my $htime = "$year-$mon-$mday $hour:$min:$sec";
+                $resp = {data=>[{token => [{id => $tokenid, expire => $htime}]}]};
+            } else {
+                $resp={error=>["Authentication failure"],errorcode=>[1]};
+            }
+            $resp->{serverdone}=[ undef ] ;
+            send_response($resp,$sock);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        # If user trying to use 'token' to authenticate
+        if (defined $req->{tokens}) {
+            # get the valid user name by the token id
+            $peername = xCAT::xcatd->verifytoken($req);
+            unless (defined $peername) {
+                my $resp={error=>["Authentication failure"],errorcode=>[1]};
+                $resp->{serverdone}=[ undef ] ;
+                send_response($resp,$sock);
+                return;
+            }
+            delete($req->{tokenid});
+        }
+
         #we have a full request..
         #printf $request."\n";
         $request="";