API auth failing

[DLZ-TVotR]

I am new to restAPI/apis in general completely really so I am sure I am being stupid but wanted to ask.

looking at: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_API


PVE uses a Token Based Authentication. All request to the API need to include that token inside a Cookie. We usually call that token a 'ticket'. Additionally, any write request must include a CSRF prevention token inside the HTTP header. The following examples use the 'curl' command line tool.

Example: get a new ticket and the CSRF prevention token

# curl -k -d "username=root@pam&password=yourpassword"  https://10.0.0.1:8006/api2/json/access/ticket
{ "data": {
  "CSRFPreventionToken":"4EEC61E2:lwk7od06fa1+DcPUwBTXCcndyAY",
  "ticket":"PVE:root@pam:4EEC61E2::rsKoApxDTLYPn6H3NNT6iP2mv...",
  "username":"root@pam"}
}

I am attempting to do so, but all I get in return is data:null

curl -k -d "username=root@pam&password=<redacted>" https://localhost:8006/api2/json/access/ticket
{"data":null}

I noticed the auth failure occurring in /var/log/auth.log on each attempt:

Sep 10 01:42:24 pve IPCC.xs[21478]: pam_unix(common-auth:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=  user=root

the password is definitely correct and is what I use to login to the UI, also at port 8006

I do have password auth turned off in /etc/ssh/sshd_config but I don't think this has anything to do at all with ssh?

 

[Moayad]

hello,

maybe your password has special characters like !$ - if so you could try to put your password between 'single quotes' like the following example

curl -k -d 'username=root@pam&password=yourpassword'  https://10.0.0.1:8006/api2/json/access/ticket

 

[DLZ-TVotR]

yeah................... thanks.