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.

You shouldn't put a password on a command line if there's any chance there may be someone who can see your process (or run any program on your machine that can.)

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