feat: Introducing client_credentials grant | PKCE challenge to the authorization code flow #3162
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What this PR does / why we need it
If a client wants to use Dex with client credentials grant type for machine to machine use cases, they are not able to. So the addition of the client credentials flow would be valuable.
If an external IdP is requiring a PKCE challenge when authenticating an authorization_code, the only choice available is to provide it with required information (code_challenge & code_challenge_method as URL params), otherwise the request won't be successful.
=> The addition of the "pkce" parameter to the config of the oidc connector, enables the client to achieve this authentication with the challenge set:
Does this PR introduce a user-facing change?