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 service 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 the parameters from the file it finds in either of these two default locations:

  • ./.tibdg
  • ~/.tibdg
TIBDG_FTL_USER The username and password used to connect to the secure realm service.
TIBDG_FTL_PASSWD
TIBDG_FTL_TRUSTFILE The value of this property is the location of the trust file.