Hey David

Do you authenticate to Jira when using cURL? How?

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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On
> Behalf Of David Crayford
> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 12:29 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: cURL and security
> 
> On 2020-07-23 2:17 PM, kekronbekron wrote:
> > It would be best to consider switching to the z/OS Client Web Enablement
> Toolkit.
> > There are sample programs for REXX / ASM / COB .. and I'm positive there'll
> be a Python client pretty soon (IBM Open Enterprise Python for z/OS).
> 
> To me the idea of writing a web client in assembler is preposterous.
> COBOL is almost as bad and I would opt to use bpxwunix() with curl over the
> Web Enabelment Toolkit any day.
> I can create a Jira ticket with a couple of lines of curl. I would suggest 
> writing a
> REXX script using the WET would be considerably more effort.
> 
> > Don't think cURL is loved that much on Z.
> 
> Are you speaking from experience? Not loved by who? Anybody who knows
> how to use z/OS UNIX shells knows how to use curl. I used curl only
> yesterday to install a shell utility from github with a simple one-liner.
> 
> sh -c "$(curl -fsSL
> https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
> 
> 
> >
> > Hmm .. unless client auth is required at the cURL target, you don't need to
> worry about client certs, right?
> > Just plop on the target server's CA cert (interim & root CA) public keys in 
> > a
> user keyring, and point CWET to the user keyring.
> > Server auth will work just fine.
> >
> > - KB
> >
> > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> > On Thursday, July 23, 2020 10:20 AM, Filip Palian <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hey,
> >>
> >> You can read login credentials from within a script at run time from a
> >> separate file containing password. This file should have an adequate
> >> permissions and ownership set of course.
> >>
> >> Alternatively, if you control the target, perhaps you can whitelist your
> >> curl/client.
> >>
> >> I hope that helps.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> F
> >>
> >> W dniu czwartek, 23 lipca 2020 Luke [email protected] napisał(a):
> >>
> >>> Hi All
> >>> I'm wondering if anyone is using cURL on z/OS in a production setting?
> >>> I'm interested how to utilise cURL when the target URL requires
> >>> authentication.
> >>> We can't use Basic Auth because we are not able to store usernames
> and
> >>> password in scripts or batch jobs.
> >>> We can't easily use certificates because our users on z/OS do not have
> >>> certificates and our Windows based corporate certificate management
> doesn't
> >>> allow users access to the private keys of their Windows certificates.
> >>> Anyone else using cURL for DevOps on z/OS and how are you securing
> it?
> >>>
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