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gustavexx
gustavexx

Reputation: 25

How to fetch user using the TrueVault API

I'm trying to fetch a user from the TrueVault API using curl.

I've been using the following curl command (as per the documentation):

curl https://api.truevault.com/v2/users/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx7ce \
    -X GET \
    -u API_KEY:"xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx461"

The credentials:

user_id: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx7ce
api key: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx461

Every time I send the request I'm getting an error:

"error": {
    "code": "AUTH.UNSUCCESSFUL",
    "message": "Authentication Failure.",
    "type": "invalid_request_error"
},
"result": "error",
"transaction_id": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-3ba883e31f99"

So I wanted to check if maybe I'm doing wrong or might be something else.

This user has all permissions (Create, Read, Update, Delete).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 329

Answers (1)

andrewmitchell
andrewmitchell

Reputation: 1619

It looks like your Auth Header is malformed. You can read more about how to build the Auth Header here: https://docs.truevault.com/overview#authentication.

For a simple curl you can use the -u option instead of building the base64 Basic Auth header. -u expects username:password, but TrueVault's API is token-based so they want you to do "$API_KEY:". Note the empty second component! That trailing : is critical.

Try this:

curl https://api.truevault.com/v2/users/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx7ce \
    -X GET \
    -u "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx461:"

Upvotes: 1

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