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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace DevOps Automation
Categories Deploy
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 1, 2023

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Udclient CLI should support passing tokens in secured format

Currently udclient CLI does not support passing token in encrypted format so that it will not be exposed.

We are currently storing a token in readbale format in a file and then passing that value as a token to udclient command.

However instead of readable if we keep encrypted token value, the udclient command does not work.

So we want to have a way where we can pass encrypted token to udclient.

Also if we are using udclient from ucd agent dir then if we can make it use of the token from install.properties then there is no need to pass token explicitely.

Currently buztool supports use of token from install.properties.

  • Admin
    Randy Langehennig
    May 15, 2025

    There is a workaround for this to make the auth token more secure. You can place the authtoken (just the uuid for it) in the below path and the udclient command will pick it up if no username/password/authtoken cli argument is set. Place the authtoken (just the uuid of it) in ~/.ucd/authToken.

    Another workaround is to set an environment variable. You can set DS_PASSWORD environment variable to your authtoken uuid value. Also, you must set DS_USERNAME = PasswordIsAuthToken. Then, if you use udclient command it will use these variables if no username/password/authtoken cli argument is set.

    I am moving this to 'Functionality already exists' state as a result. Please let us know if you have any issues.

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  • Admin
    Randy Langehennig
    Sep 13, 2024

    Hi Shubhada, apologies for the delay in response to this. Our development team has provided us some input and we could use your response.

    Here is their question:

    "Why do they want to encrypt this? Doesn't the token provide any details? We believe that it is a random value and don't understand why another encrypted random value would be any better."

    Could you please let us know your response to this question above?

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  • Admin
    Randy Langehennig
    Feb 22, 2024

    Hi Shubhada, our development team would like your input to clarify your request. Could you provide an example of what you want to encyrpt? Could you provide a command line example where you would want to able to pass an ecrypted value? The development team isn't sure why you would want to encrypt this.

    Thank you for your response to this question.

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  • Admin
    Randy Langehennig
    Feb 14, 2024

    Hi Shubhada, thank you for this idea. We are going to create a discussion topic with our development team to review this. I agree, it would be nice if udclient could work in a similar way to buztool for mainframe deployments. We will be in touch. -Randy

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