• Web Development

    Obtain a bearer token using curl

    In the following, we set a variable called BearerToken using a simple curl to the contents of a bearer token. We do so by running a curl with data in the header for “userid” although sometimes we see this as just “user” or “username” and then a password. This hits an endpoint called authenticationendpoint although sometimes we see that called “auth” or “authenticate” – in this specific case we’re pulling the bearer token out of “id” and it’s nested in there with a name of “token”: BearerToken=$(curl -s -X POST -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{"userid”:”{userid}”,”password":"{password}"}' https://krypted.com//api/authenticationendpoint | sed -E 's/\},\s*\{/\},\n\{/g' File | grep  ‘”id” : “token”’) Once…

  • JAMF

    Programmatically Figuring Out When VPPTokens Expire In Casper

    The JSS has the ability to upload multiple .vpptokens, and using those, you can upload separate tokens for sites and then provide App Store apps to different sites based on each having some autonomy by having their own token. This is a pretty cool feature. And using the GUI, you can see when each token expires. You can also see a list of tokens using the API. To see a full list of all the tokens, we’ll just use a basic curl command here: curl -s -u myuser:mypassword https://kryptedjamf.jamfcloud.com/JSSResource/vppaccounts This provides an array of output that has the number of tokens in <size> and the id of each along with…