.. _Providing Credentials:

Providing Credentials
---------------------

The ``vinfra`` CLI tool requires the following information to be used:

- IP address or hostname of the management node (set to ``backend-api.svc.vstoragedomain`` by default).
- Username (``admin`` by default).
- Password (created during installation of |product_name|).

This information can be supplied via the ``--vinfra-portal``, ``--vinfra-username``, and ``--vinfra-password`` command-line parameters with each command. Alternatively, you can supply it by setting the environment variables ``VINFRA_PORTAL``, ``VINFRA_USERNAME``, and ``VINFRA_PASSWORD`` (e.g., in your ``~/.bash_profile``). In this case, you will be able to run the CLI tool without the aforementioned command-line parameters.

As you typically run ``vinfra`` from the management node as admin, the only variable you usually need to set is the password. For example:

::

   # export VINFRA_PASSWORD=12345

If you installed ``vinfra`` on a remote machine and/or run it as a different user, you will need to set ``VINFRA_PORTAL`` and/or ``VINFRA_USERNAME`` on that machine in addition to ``VINFRA_PASSWORD``.