[🚨Error] platform URL is mandatory for access token creation

[faisal6621]

I am using using the jf atc command to create an access token for a different user than the logged in. However, I am getting the error

[🚨Error] platform URL is mandatory for access token creation

I have checked the config and the URL is correctly set.

What can be done in this case?

[yahavi]

@faisal6621

It appears you've used the --user flag to provide a username. This flag is intended solely for authentication purposes and does not set the target username for the token. For security reasons, when providing any authentication details by flag in the JFrog CLI (such as username, password, URL, etc.), you must provide all of them together to avoid sending valid credentials to the wrong URL.

To generate a token for the user configured by the jf c add command, simply run:

jf atc --expiry 0 --description "..."

To generate a token for another user, provide the username as an argument instead of a flag:

jf atc <username> --expiry 0 --description "..."

You can read more about this command here: Creating Access Tokens

Please let me know if this helps.

[faisal6621]

@yahavi
Thanks for the clarification. This was not clear from the CLI help documentation.

[eyalbe4]

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