7.3. Disabling robot accounts

Procedure

1. Update your config.yaml field to add the ROBOTS_DISALLOW variable, for example:

   ROBOTS_DISALLOW: true

2. Restart your Red Hat Quay deployment.

Verification: Creating a new robot account

1. Navigate to your Red Hat Quay repository.
2. Click the name of a repository.
3. In the navigation pane, click Robot Accounts.
4. Click Create Robot Account.
5. Enter a name for the robot account, for example, <organization-name/username>+<robot-name>.
6. Click Create robot account to confirm creation. The following message appears: Cannot create robot account. Robot accounts have been disabled. Please contact your administrator.

Verification: Logging into a robot account

1. On the command-line interface (CLI), attempt to log in as one of the robot accounts by entering the following command:

   $ podman login -u="<organization-name/username>+<robot-name>" -p="KETJ6VN0WT8YLLNXUJJ4454ZI6TZJ98NV41OE02PC2IQXVXRFQ1EJ36V12345678" <quay-server.example.com>

   The following error message is returned:

   Error: logging into "<quay-server.example.com>": invalid username/password

2. You can pass in the log-level=debug flag to confirm that robot accounts have been deactivated:

   $ podman login -u="<organization-name/username>+<robot-name>" -p="KETJ6VN0WT8YLLNXUJJ4454ZI6TZJ98NV41OE02PC2IQXVXRFQ1EJ36V12345678" --log-level=debug <quay-server.example.com>

   ...
   DEBU[0000] error logging into "quay-server.example.com": unable to retrieve auth token: invalid username/password: unauthorized: Robot accounts have been disabled. Please contact your administrator.