authenticate

Important:

Browser-based authentication is not compatible with Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Grants authorization for SuiteCloud SDK to access NetSuite with an account-role combination. It requires browser-based login to NetSuite.

Important:

For this command to work, at least one of the following ports needs to be accessible locally from your machine: 52300 – 52315.

Syntax

          authenticate  [-authid AuthId]
    [-url NetSuiteDomainURL]

Options

Option

Required / Optional

Description

-authid

Required

References the custom alias you give to a specific account-role combination. Referred to as authentication ID and auth ID in the documentation.

-url

Optional

Not required when authenticating against system.netsuite.com.

References the NetSuite domain of the account you want to use. It only needs to be specified if you want to use a customized NetSuite domain.

-h or -help

Optional

Prints the help for this command.

Example

The following command authenticates an account by prompting the browser:

sdfcli authenticate -authid AuthId

Output example

After the browser closes and the account-role combination is authenticated, the command produces output that is similar to the following:

The authentication was successful with the following account and role: Account ID [Role]. This project will use the authentication ID "AuthId" as default.

Syntax

Options

Example

Output example

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