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Re: [Handle-info] HS_SECKEY authentication for REST API

Yes, PUT /api/handles/{handle} can be used.  The technical manual describes the API.

I should add that we generally try to discourage use of HS_SECKEY.  Although HTTP Basic authentication is significantly simpler than the alternatives, HS_SECKEY does not have the security allowed by use of public/private key pairs.

Robert

On Jan 25, 2019, at 3:03 PM, Kun Lin <link@whitman.edu> wrote:

Is there a way to create a brand new handle via API?
Kun

 

From: Robert R Tupelo-Schneck <schneck@cnri.reston.va.us> 
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2019 12:02 PM
To: Kun Lin <link@whitman.edu>
Cc: handle-info@cnri.reston.va.us
Subject: Re: [Handle-info] HS_SECKEY authentication for REST API

 

Create a handle, and in that handle record create a value of type HS_SECKEY.  By convention the secret or public key is placed at index 300, but this is not necessary.  Also, the HS_SECKEY value should be made not-world-readable (the hdl-admintool client does this for you).

 

After this handle is created with an HS_SECKEY value, that handle can be used with HTTP Basic authentication.

 

Robert


On Jan 24, 2019, at 7:53 PM, Kun Lin <link@whitman.edu> wrote:

 

For the purpose of using REST API and Basic Access Authentication. How to set the HS_SECKEY password?  I didn’t remember setting it. I always use admpriv.bin file for auth in clients. 

 

 

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Kun Lin
Systems and Application Librarian
Whitman College

 

 

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