Configuring user credentials

There are two methods you can use to specify user credentials for MFDAS in a UNIX environment:

Environment variables

You can specify your user credentials using environment variables. For example:

MFA_USERNAME=username

MFA_PASSWORD=password

Vault Facility

You can use the mfsecrets vault by specifying:

MFA_CREDENTIALS=mfsecret:vault_name:/path_to_vault/location

Where vault_name is the name of the vault to use from the mfsecrets.cfg file. If this is not specified then the default is used, for example:

MFA_CREDENTIALS=mfsecret:/path_to_vault/location

The credentials stored in the vault must be in the following format:

{
“version”:1,
“username”:”username”,
“password”:”password”
}

Micro Focus recommends that you use a vault location of microfocus/MFA/my_credentials. Where my_credentials is replaced with an identifier for that user.

See Vault Facility for more information.