securely login via shell

xsa login via bitwarden.md

Want to securely login to command line tools without exposing your credentials?

• Install one of the Bitwarden clients (https://github.com/bitwarden)
• Create your secure passwords with the Bitwarden client
  • Here I created a secure item with the namen xsa-engine
• Install the Bitwarden CLI (https://github.com/bitwarden/cli)
• At command line login to the Bitwarden CLI (bw login)
• Write a script like the following to securely connect to your applications / servers. Here I connect to the HANA XSA server via xs client.
• chmod 755 xsa_login.sh

xsa_login.sh:

#!/bin/bash
user=$(bw get username xsa-engine)
pw=$(bw get password xsa-engine)
url=https://xsa.company.com
orgname=myorgname
space=DEV
xs login -a $url -u $user -p $pw -o $orgname -s $space --skip-ssl-validation

You can now save your shell script to any public git repo without having to obscure your credentials.

(Most can take the password via stdin, I would suggest doing that.)