Is it possible to generate a Knox token pro-grammatically?

NovSeek — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:37:35 GMT

I can get a Knox token from the Web UI in CDP Private Cloud, but is it possible to get it from the API without having to use the Web UI?

Re: Is it possible to generate a Knox token pro-grammatically?

DianaTorres — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:15:43 GMT

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Re: Is it possible to generate a Knox token pro-grammatically?

vamsi_redd — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:33:58 GMT

@NovSeek,

You can try follwoing

curl -k -c cookies3.txt -L -u knox_user:knoxpass https://ccycloud-1.nightly-cm-my.root.comops.site:8443/gateway/homepage/knoxtoken/api/v1/token | jq -r '.access_token' > knox-access-token.txt

Knox token will be stored in knox-access-token.txt

[root@ccycloud-1.nightly-cm-my.root.comops.site ~]# curl -ku Token:eyJqa3UiOiJodHRwczovL2NjeWNsb3VkLTEubmlnaHRseS1jbS1teS5yb290LmNvbW9wcy5zaXRlOjg0NDMvZ2F0ZXdheS9ob21lcGFnZS9rbm94dG9rZW4vYXBpL3YxL2p3a3MuanNvbiIsImtpZCI6Ikh2cVJaVjBkRk1US0pGSEpUWnJiQjN1MWlHOVA2cGNsOFpFLWU5SzJXTzQiLCJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJrbm94dWkiLCJhdWQiOiJjZHAtcHJveHktdG9rZW4iLCJqa3UiOiJodHRwczovL2NjeWNsb3VkLTEubmlnaHRseS1jbS1teS5yb290LmNvbW9wcy5zaXRlOjg0NDMvZ2F0ZXdheS9ob21lcGFnZS9rbm94dG9rZW4vYXBpL3YxL2p3a3MuanNvbiIsImtpZCI6Ikh2cVJaVjBkRk1US0pGSEpUWnJiQjN1MWlHOVA2cGNsOFpFLWU5SzJXTzQiLCJpc3MiOiJLTk9YU1NPIiwiZXhwIjoxNzc4ODEyMTU3LCJtYW5hZ2VkLnRva2VuIjoidHJ1ZSIsImtub3guaWQiOiJiOThjYjNiMi0yNmNmLTQ1NTktOWJiMi1kNGRhOTljYjg0ODMifQ.wejWLyybDpYcGGsJF_VQA0GSSXAlLQsTM2H9z9-Yn-WWYfjzGq-a_h04ShEW0hgMaSuf2lVQKx16JKaNRk5-FPXP7EYLl1MFEmAsCMZjDFaRdcP8gqDOz6HDtWWveaQ51UiUOHpit2PsYZjxlu8MD_iOQn_Lpg92558VxiQKZdHO7lJbPQgDcOjPbbIPM-ZdpZOUbbJyj3Z1HsOfJHw2BogfpQe9TuLfN7MVjUvO5l6tbwh9qeV75jWBuiB6Iij6dp4lewKTrdaAIH-Hp8laCJbF13bPgFitOkg_fBln8dpJ8XNNoltriZLbZ01az1Oq4hY0iZSRbiglOJXP2F2miw https://ccycloud-1.nightly-cm-my.root.comops.site:8443/gateway/cdp-proxy-token/webhdfs/v1?op=LISTSTATUS

{"FileStatuses":{"FileStatus":[{"accessTime":0,"blockSize":0,"childrenNum":12,"fileId":16415,"group":"hbase","length":0,"modificationTime":1778772940944,"owner":"hbase","pathSuffix":"hbase","permission":"755","replication":0,"storagePolicy":0,"type":"DIRECTORY"},{"accessTime":0,"blockSize":0,"childrenNum":1,"fileId":16386,"group":"supergroup","length":0,"modificationTime":1778513008087,"owner":"hdfs","pathSuffix":"ranger","permission":"755","replication":0,"storagePolicy":0,"type":"DIRECTORY"},{"accessTime":0,"blockSize":0,"childrenNum":0,"fileId":16417,"group":"solr","length":0,"modificationTime":1778513048696,"owner":"solr","pathSuffix":"solr-infra","permission":"775","replication":0,"storagePolicy":0,"type":"DIRECTORY"},{"accessTime":0,"blockSize":0,"childrenNum":3,"fileId":16412,"group":"supergroup","length":0,"modificationTime":1778516233701,"owner":"hdfs","pathSuffix":"tmp","permission":"1777","replication":0,"storagePolicy":0,"type":"DIRECTORY"},{"accessTime":0,"blockSize":0,"childrenNum":13,"fileId":16394,"group":"supergroup","length":0,"modificationTime":1778578527265,"owner":"hdfs","pathSuffix":"user","permission":"755","replication":0,"storagePolicy":0,"type":"DIRECTORY"},{"accessTime":0,"blockSize":0,"childrenNum":1,"fileId":16399,"group":"supergroup","length":0,"modificationTime":1778513044819,"owner":"hdfs","pathSuffix":"warehouse","permission":"755","replication":0,"storagePolicy":0,"type":"DIRECTORY"},{"accessTime":0,"blockSize":0,"childrenNum":1,"fileId":16407,"group":"supergroup","length":0,"modificationTime":1778513047786,"owner":"hdfs","pathSuffix":"yarn","permission":"755","replication":0,"storagePolicy":0,"type":"DIRECTORY"}]}}[root@ccycloud-1.nightly-cm-my.root.comops.site ~]#

Re: Is it possible to generate a Knox token pro-grammatically?

NovSeek — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:40:51 GMT

Thanks for the reply. That is valid but not quite what I want to do. I am trying to do it without having the cookie.txt file. I think I need to set up an additional topology that has basic/ldap auth and use that to generate the Knox token.

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