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pelican generate password

Generate a Pelican admin website password file (htpasswd)

Synopsis

Given a password for the admin website, generate the htpasswd file that Pelican server uses to store the password and authenticate the admin user. You may put the generated file under /etc/pelican with name “server-web-passwd”, or change Server.UIPasswordFile to the path to generated file to initialize the admin website.

pelican generate password [flags]

Options

  -h, --help              help for password
  -o, --output string     The path to the generate htpasswd password file. Default: ./server-web-passwd
  -p, --password string   The path to the file containing the password. Will take from terminal input if not provided

Options inherited from parent commands

      --config string       config file (default is $HOME/.config/pelican/pelican.yaml)
  -d, --debug               Enable debug log messages
  -f, --federation string   Pelican federation to utilize
      --json                output results in JSON format
  -L, --log string          Specified log output file
      --version             Print the version and exit

SEE ALSO

pelican generatepelican job