Artifactory comes with a pre-configured default “admin” account.
In this short note you will find the default Artifactory credentials and i will show how to test Artifactory login, password and API Key by authenticating on Artifactory’s REST API using curl command from the command line in Linux.
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Default Artifactory Admin Password
Default Artifactory credentials:
| admin | Artifactory admin login (default) |
| password | Artifactory admin password (default) |
Test Artifactory Credentials
To test Artifactory credentials i propose to GET /api/system/configuration/reverseProxy/nginx using REST API.
According to documentation, this call requires a valid user (not anonymous) and should return a reverse proxy configuration snippet in the text format.
If authentication fails, it will return the following error:
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 401
Test Artifactory username and password:
$ curl -sSf -u "<username>:<password>" 'http(s)://<ARTIFACTORY_URL>/artifactory/api/system/configuration/reverseProxy/nginx'
Test Artifactory username and API Key:
$ curl -sSf -u "<username>:<API_KEY>" 'http(s)://<ARTIFACTORY_URL>/artifactory/api/system/configuration/reverseProxy/nginx'
Test Artifactory API Key:
$ curl -sSf -H "X-JFrog-Art-Api:<API_KEY>" 'http(s)://<ARTIFACTORY_URL>/artifactory/api/system/configuration/reverseProxy/nginx'
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
-s, --silent |
Don’t show progress meter or error messages |
-S, --show-error |
When used with -s, --silent, it makes curl show an error message if it fails |
-f, --fail |
Return an error if HTTP status code is not 200 |
-H, --header <header> |
Extra HTTP header to include in the request |
-u, --user <username:password> |
Specify the username and password to use for server authentication |