Environment Variables for the Administration Tool

The following environment variables can be used with the tibdg command line administrative tool.

Values on the command line override the values of these environment variables.
Environment Variable Description
TIBDG_FTL The administration tool contacts the realm server at this URL (host and port).
TIBDG_PARAM_FILE The administration tool reads parameters from this file path.

Values in this file override the tool's default values.

Individual values on the command line override values in this file.

If this variable is not set, the tool reads parameters from the file it finds in either of these two default locations:
  • ./.tibdg
  • ~/.tibdg

For syntax of the configuration file, see the output of the command tibdg config.

TIBDG_FTL_USER The user name and password used to connect to the secure realm server.
TIBDG_FTL_PASSWD
TIBDG_FTL_TRUSTFILE The value of this property is the location of the trust file.