Token Manager

This is a ruby plugin which manages tokens on a machine.

Reason For Building

I've built a number of utility scripts for interacting with 3rd party services, such as Github, Slack, or CircleCI. These utilities require the use of API tokens. Originally I'd store these tokens in a dotfile, so that they can be shared amongst scripts. However, reading tokens from a file became cumbersome. Now I can easily shell out and read the tokens via the Token Manager

Ruby Example

  def slack_api_call
    slack_token = `token_manager read slack_token`
    ...
  end

Installation

1. Copy the main.rb file to a location on your machine
2. Symlink the script to /usr/local/bin

$ ln -s /path/to/main.rb /usr/local/bin/token_manager

Now you can call token_manager from the command line

How To Use

Add a token

$ token_manager add token_name token_value

Remove a token

$ token_manager remove token_name

Read a token

$ token_manager read token_name

List all tokens

$ token_manager list

Token Storage

• Tokens are stored in a dotfile in the same directory as the plugin script.

• tokens are not encrypted when stored.