btpcflogin

SAP BTP Cloud Foundry Login Helper

This Node.js project makes it easier to login to the SAP BTP Cloud Foundry environment with the command line interface cf. After installation you can use the shell command btpcflogin to get a guided login to the platform. It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS - implemented and tested with WSL2 - Ubuntu and macOS.

Features

• Guided, interactive login: region, credentials, org and space are all chosen from type-ahead lists
• Complete region list including extension landscapes, matching the SAP Help documentation
• Credentials are read from your password manager - pass (Linux), gopass (Windows) or KeePassXC (macOS) - so passwords never end up in the shell history
• Single Sign On with a temporary passcode as login alternative
• Supports custom identity providers (IdP origin)
• Favorites: store region/org/space/login combinations and log in with a single selection (-f)
• macOS: optional caching of the KeePassXC database password in the Keychain
• Runs in headless environments (e.g. WSL2)

Prerequisites

• The Cloud Foundry CLI cf (install instructions)
• Node.js runtime 22.12 or higher
• A git installation, if you want to run from source
• A credential manager, to use stored login credentials besides the SSO option that is provided by the Cloud Foundry CLI:

Platform	Manager
Linux	pass - the standard linux password manager (install and setup)
Windows	gopass - cross-platform password manager that is compatible to pass (install and setup)
macOS	KeePassXC - cross-platform password manager, used via its bundled keepassxc-cli (install and setup)

add-login lists the entries of the password store: on Linux from $PASSWORD_STORE_DIR (defaults to ~/.password-store), on Windows from %LOCALAPPDATA%\gopass\stores\root and on macOS from the configured KeePassXC database.

Installation

Install as shell command from npm:

npm i -g btpcflogin

Run from source:

1. Clone git repo and cd into cloned repo
2. npm i
3. npm run local

Install as shell command from source:

1. Clone git repo and cd into cloned repo
2. npm i
3. npx tsc
4. npm i -g

Run the unit tests:

npm test

Available Commands

• login (default)
  Starts complete Login to Cloud Foundry. As this is the default command it can be omitted and is triggered by executing btpcflogin.

  Options:

  • -s, --store-favorite
    Stores the cf target after successful login in the config store

  • -f, --use-favorite
    Use stored favorite to login even faster

• add-login
  Interactively adds a new pass/gopass/KeePassXC login to the config store

• rm-login
  Interactively removes a pass/gopass/KeePassXC login from the config store

• sort-logins
  Allows reordering of the stored pass/gopass/KeePassXC logins in the config store

• t (target)
  Interactive setting of new target (org and space), by using the current API region and logon token. (see cf t)

• sort-favs
  Allows reordering of the stored favorites in the config store

• rename-fav
  Rename a stored favorite in the config store

• rm-fav
  Remove single cf target favorite from the config store

Example calls

# Login
btpcflogin

# Login and store the chosen org, space, api region and pass login into favorite
btpcflogin -s

# Login using a stored favorite
btpcflogin -f

# choose target
btpcflogin t

# Add new 'pass' login
btpcflogin add-login

Credential format

It is assumed that the login data is stored in the following format in a pass file:

<password of SAP S-user>
username: <e-mail of SAP S-user>
origin: <origin or custom IdP>

Hint: The origin is only required if the credentials are from a custom identity provider.

The username and origin lines must start with the prefixes username: and origin: .

Credential format for KeePassXC (macOS)

On macOS the login data is read from a regular KeePassXC entry:

• Username: e-mail of SAP S-user
• Password: password of SAP S-user
• Additional attribute origin (optional): origin key of a custom IdP

The path to the KeePassXC database (*.kdbx) is requested once and stored in the config store. It can be overridden with the environment variable BTPCFLOGIN_KDBX.

If keepassxc-cli is not on the PATH, btpcflogin automatically detects the executable that is bundled with the KeePassXC app (in /Applications or ~/Applications) and remembers it in the config store after a confirmation. A custom location can be entered as well.

After the first successful unlock you are asked once whether the database password should be remembered in the macOS Keychain. If stored, subsequent runs unlock the database automatically (when the database password changes, you are prompted again and the Keychain entry is updated). Remove the stored password anytime with security delete-generic-password -s btpcflogin. The yes/no choice is remembered as keePassXcKeychain in the config store - remove the property to be asked again.

Config store

All settings of btpcflogin (logins, favorites, KeePassXC paths) are kept in a configstore file at ~/.config/configstore/btpcflogin.json (respects $XDG_CONFIG_HOME).