Authentication by login command

The CLI provides a login command to allow username/password pairs to be stored in a credentials file in the administrator's home directory. This file is named .apocpass. The .apocpass file has restricted access.

If authentication is successful, a username/password pair entry is added to the .apocpass file. The key for this pair is made up of the server/port/base DN and the username so that username/password pairs can be stored for other back ends in the same file.

Once the login command has successfully completed, other CLI commands can be executed without the necessity of specifying a username or password.

For more details on how to use the login command, see Login.