Creating a Security Token

A token is an optional configuration file that can be deployed on nodes that have access to or create secured ActiveSpaces resources. The token is created from the security parameter values set in a specified policy file.

1. Create a policy file and set the policy parameters required for a token.
2. Run the create security_token command to create a token file.

   The create security token command has the following syntax:

   define | create security_token domain_name <string>
policy_file <string> [create_identity [common_name <string>]
[encrypt <boolean>][validity_days <integer>]]token_file <string>

   For a complete description of the create security_token command, see define create security_token.

   For example:

   as-admin> 
   create security_token
domain_name "mydomain"
policy_file "mypolicy.txt"
token_file "mytoken.txt"			 

3. Copy the token file to requestor nodes as needed.
4. Verify OS-level access privileges on the security tokens.
   Attention: When using security, the Discovery URL is set on both, the policy and token files. Members using either the policy or the token file should not explicitly specify the Discovery URL in the command line parameters of the as-admin agent.

• Perform Additional Programming Tasks to Process Authentication Requests
  To process authentication requests, once you have set up authentication using the ActiveSpaces CLI, you can code a callback routine for client authentication on requestors and develop code to process authentication requests.