A simple command line jwt token generator based on a rsa private key.
By default it will print a JWT token with iss, nbf and exp set which is signed by the private key in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.:
iss - will be set to the current user name nbf - will be set to 1 minute in the past exp - will be set to 30 minutes in the future.
You can override the default settings on the command line.
Options
| --issuer TEXT | of the token |
| --not-before INTEGER | |
| Â | number of seconds before now the token is no longer valid |
| --expires-after INTEGER | |
| Â | number of seconds after which the token is no longer valid |
| --private-key-file PATH | |
| Â | the private key file to sign the token with |
| -A, --authorization-header | |
| Â | print authorization header bearer token |
| --help | Show this message and exit. |
Example
To send the the authorization bearer token with curl, type:
curl -H "$(jwt-generator -A)" https://httpbin.org/headers
Install on MacOS
To install you MacOs you might run into trouble due to the dependency on cryptography. Type::
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib" export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include" export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/pkgconfig"
before you do the pip install jwt-generator. See https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/2692 for details.
