Chapter 3. Hammer authentication

If you ran the Satellite installation with --foreman-initial-admin-username and --foreman-initial-admin-password options, credentials you entered are stored in the ~/.hammer/cli.modules.d/foreman.yml configuration file, and hammer does not prompt for your credentials.

You can also add your credentials to the ~/.hammer/cli.modules.d/foreman.yml configuration file manually:

:foreman:
 :username: 'username'
 :password: 'password'

:foreman:
 :username: 'username'
 :password: 'password'

Use only spaces for indentation in hammer configuration files, do not use tabs.

If you do not have your Satellite credentials saved in the ~/.hammer/cli.modules.d/foreman.yml configuration file, hammer prompts you for them each time you enter a command. You can specify your credentials when executing a command as follows:

hammer -u username -p password subcommands

$ hammer -u username -p password subcommands

The hammer authentication session is a cache that stores your credentials, and you have to provide them only once, at the beginning of the session. This method is suited to running several hammer commands in succession, for example a script containing hammer commands. In this scenario, you enter your Satellite credentials once, and the script runs as expected. By using the hammer authentication session, you avoid storing your credentials in the script itself and in the ~/.hammer/cli.modules.d/foreman.yml hammer configuration file.

See the instructions on how to use the sessions: