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OIDC-AGENT(1) User Commands OIDC-AGENT(1)

NAME

oidc-agent - OIDC token agent

SYNOPSIS

oidc-agent [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

oidc-agent -- An agent to manage oidc token

General:
Create the UNIX-domain used for communicating with the agent at this PATH. The default is '$TMPDIR/oidc-XXXXXX/oidc-agent.<ppid>'. Use 'XXXXXX' as the last six characters of a directory in the path to substitute them with random characters.
approval by the user.
Requires user confirmation when an application requests an access token for any loaded configuration
Print agent socket and pid as JSON instead of bash.
Kill the current agent (given by the OIDCD_PID environment variable)
Disables the autoload feature: A token request cannot load the needed configuration. You have to do it with oidc-add.
Disables the automatic re-authentication feature: If a refresh token expired the re-atuhentiacte is not started automatically; you have to do it manually.
This option applies only when the authorization code flow is used. oidc-agent will not use a custom uri scheme redirect.
This option applies only when the authorization code flow is used. oidc-agent will not start a webserver. Redirection to oidc-gen through a custom uri scheme redirect uri and 'manual' redirect is possible.
Keeps the encryption passwords for all loaded account configurations encrypted in memory for TIME seconds. Can be overwritten for a specific configuration with oidc-add. Default value for TIME: Forever
Disable informational messages to stdout.
Enables seccomp system call filtering; allowing only predefined system calls.
Sets a default value in seconds for the maximum lifetime of account configurations added to the agent. A lifetime specified for an account configuration with oidc-add overwrites this default value. Without this option the default maximum lifetime is forever.
This option allows that applications running under another user can access the agent. The user running the other application and the user running the agent have to be in the specified group. If no GROUP_NAME is specified the default is 'oidc-agent'.
Verbosity:
Runs oidc-agent on the console, without daemonizing.
Sets the log level to DEBUG.
Additionally prints log messages to stderr.
Connects to the currently running agent and prints status information about it.
Help:
-?, --help
Give this help list
Give a short usage message
Print program version

Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.

FILES

$TMPDIR/oidc-XXXXXX/oidc-agent.<ppid>

UNIX-domain sockets used to contain the connection to the agent.

EXAMPLES

oidc-agent
Starts oidc-agent and prints the commands needed for setting the required environment variables.

eval `oidc-agent`
Starts oidc-agent and sets the required environment variables (only for this shell).

oidc-agent > ~/tmp/oidc-agent.env
Starts oidc-agent and exports the needed shell commands to ~/tmp/oidc-agent.env Can be used to persist the agent.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <https://github.com/indigo-dc/oidc-agent/issues>
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SEE ALSO

oidc-gen(1), oidc-add(1), oidc-token(1), oidc-keychain(1)

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February 2022 oidc-agent 4.2.6