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//For background on this issue, see my comments on [[ http://www.guywarner.com/2014/06/part-2-integrating-phabricator-and.html | this blog post ]].// I create a bot user in Phabricator and now I want to set up `arc` on a remote host to be able to talk to Phabricator as that bot user. I follow the Arcanist Quick Start guide and see that I need to [[ https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/arcanist_quick_start/#install-arcanist-credent | install a certificate ]] for my bot user as such: ``` arc install-certificate ``` The problem is that this command returns some very confusing instructions. ``` Trying to connect to server... LOGIN TO PHABRICATOR Open this page in your browser and login to Phabricator if necessary: http://phabricator.my.server.com/conduit/login/ Then paste the API Token on that page below. Paste API Token from that page: ``` If I follow these instructions, I end up setting up `arc` to authenticate as myself and not the bot user, which isn't what I want. So I go to the settings page for my bot user on Phabricator and copy the Arcanist Certificate on there to paste into `arc install-certificate`. When I try that I get: ``` Usage Exception: The token "veryveryverylongtokenthatislongerthan32charactersanddoesntbeingwiththeletterscliblahblahblah..." is not formatted correctly. API tokens should be 32 characters long. Make sure you visited the correct URI and copy/pasted the token correctly. ``` Apparently, the correct procedure to get `arc` to authenticate as your bot user is to create an `.arcrc` file on the remote host you are setting up and fill in these values: ``` { "hosts": { "http:\/\/phabricator.my.server.com\/api\/": { "user": "my-bot-user", "cert": "veryverylongstringoflettersandnumbersthatislongerthan32charactersanddoesntnecessarilybeginwiththeletterscli" } } } ``` I only found this out by asking on `#phabricator` on IRC. It wasn't documented in any obvious place. This sounds like a flow that could definitely be improved.

//For background on this issue, see my comments on [[ http://www.guywarner.com/2014/06/part-2-integrating-phabricator-and.html | this blog post ]].// I create a bot user in Phabricator and now I want to set up `arc` on a remote host to be able to talk to Phabricator as that bot user. I follow the Arcanist Quick Start guide and see that I need to [[ https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/arcanist_quick_start/#install-arcanist-credent | install a certificate ]] for my bot user as such: ``` arc install-certificate ``` The problem is that this command returns some very confusing instructions. ``` Trying to connect to server... LOGIN TO PHABRICATOR Open this page in your browser and login to Phabricator if necessary: http://phabricator.my.server.com/conduit/login/ Then paste the API Token on that page below. Paste API Token from that page: ``` If I follow these instructions, I end up setting up `arc` to authenticate as myself and not the bot user, which isn't what I want. So I go to the settings page for my bot user on Phabricator and copy the Arcanist Certificate on there to paste into `arc install-certificate`. When I try that I get: ``` Usage Exception: The token "veryveryverylongtokenthatislongerthan32charactersanddoesntbeginwiththeletterscliblahblahblah..." is not formatted correctly. API tokens should be 32 characters long. Make sure you visited the correct URI and copy/pasted the token correctly. ``` Apparently, the correct procedure to get `arc` to authenticate as your bot user is to create an `.arcrc` file on the remote host you are setting up and fill in these values: ``` { "hosts": { "http:\/\/phabricator.my.server.com\/api\/": { "user": "my-bot-user", "cert": "veryverylongstringoflettersandnumbersthatislongerthan32charactersanddoesntnecessarilybeginwiththeletterscli" } } } ``` I only found this out by asking on `#phabricator` on IRC. It wasn't documented in any obvious place. This sounds like a flow that could definitely be improved.

//For background on this issue, see my comments on [[ http://www.guywarner.com/2014/06/part-2-integrating-phabricator-and.html | this blog post ]].// I create a bot user in Phabricator and now I want to set up `arc` on a remote host to be able to talk to Phabricator as that bot user. I follow the Arcanist Quick Start guide and see that I need to [[ https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/arcanist_quick_start/#install-arcanist-credent | install a certificate ]] for my bot user as such: ``` arc install-certificate ``` The problem is that this command returns some very confusing instructions. ``` Trying to connect to server... LOGIN TO PHABRICATOR Open this page in your browser and login to Phabricator if necessary: http://phabricator.my.server.com/conduit/login/ Then paste the API Token on that page below. Paste API Token from that page: ``` If I follow these instructions, I end up setting up `arc` to authenticate as myself and not the bot user, which isn't what I want. So I go to the settings page for my bot user on Phabricator and copy the Arcanist Certificate on there to paste into `arc install-certificate`. When I try that I get: ``` Usage Exception: The token "veryveryverylongtokenthatislongerthan32charactersanddoesntbeingginwiththeletterscliblahblahblah..." is not formatted correctly. API tokens should be 32 characters long. Make sure you visited the correct URI and copy/pasted the token correctly. ``` Apparently, the correct procedure to get `arc` to authenticate as your bot user is to create an `.arcrc` file on the remote host you are setting up and fill in these values: ``` { "hosts": { "http:\/\/phabricator.my.server.com\/api\/": { "user": "my-bot-user", "cert": "veryverylongstringoflettersandnumbersthatislongerthan32charactersanddoesntnecessarilybeginwiththeletterscli" } } } ``` I only found this out by asking on `#phabricator` on IRC. It wasn't documented in any obvious place. This sounds like a flow that could definitely be improved.