Janssen Command Line Interface

jans-cli is a Command Line Interface for Janssen Configuration. It also has menu-driven interface that makes it easier to understand how to use Janssen Server through the Interactive Mode.

Table of Contents

• Janssen Command Line Interface
• Installation
• Quick Start

Installation

You can directly download the jans-cli package file as below:

For macOs:

wget https://github.com/JanssenProject/jans-cli/releases/latest/download/jans-cli-macos-amd64.pyz

for linux:

wget https://github.com/JanssenProject/jans-cli/releases/latest/download/jans-cli-linux-amd64.pyz

Build jans-cli.pyz manually

If you would like to build jans-cli manually, you can go through the following steps noted here:

Prerequisites

1. wget
2. unzip
3. Python 3.6+.
4. Python pip3 package.

Building

1. Install dependencies

   apt install -y wget unzip python3-pip python3-dev
   pip3 install shiv

2. Download the repository:

   wget https://github.com/JanssenProject/jans/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

3. Unzip package, and change to directory

   unzip main.zip
   cd jans-main/jans-cli-tui

4. Build

   make zipapp

You can verify with the following command line if everything is done successfully.

python3 jans-cli-tui.pyz

Standard Python package

1. Install venv module

   pip3 install virtualenv

2. Create virtual environment and activate:

   python3 -m virtualenv .venv
   source .venv/bin/activate

3. Download and install the package:

   wget https://github.com/JanssenProject/jans/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
   unzip main.zip
   cd jans-main/jans-cli-tui
   make install
   

   This command will install executable called jans-cli and jans-cli-tui available in virtual environment PATH.

Virtual Machine Setup

jans-cli is automatically installed if you choose jans-config-api during Janssen Server Installation on Virtual Machine.

After successfully installed Janssen Server, you will get two command-line arguments as below:

Quick Start

As you have seen, CLI supports both of the config-cli and scim-cli. For a quick start, let's run the following command.

/opt/jans/jans-cli/config-cli.py

If you get an error, you can try in this way:

python3 /opt/jans/jans-cli/config-cli.py

Alternatively, you can make python3 to default version:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3 10
/opt/jans/jans-cli/config-cli.py

You will get a menu as below image:

From the following list, you can choose any options by selecting its number. For example, let's say number 2, to get Default Authentication Method.

That returns another two options as below:

Now selecting 1 and it returns our desired result as below image:

So, That was a quick start to view how this jans-cli Interactive Mode works. Please, follow this link to read the jans-cli docs for a better understanding of the Janssen Command-Line.