ECACCE...-CREATE(1p)

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version 6.3.1 · 2 versions
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💖 ECACCE...-CREATE(1p) 💖

okay bestie, this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and it's literally the glow-up your ECtools access needs. sit down, hydrate, let's get into it. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

ecaccess-certificate-create — Create Certificate for the ECtools

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ecaccess-certificate-create -version|-help|-manual

ecaccess-certificate-create [-debug] [user-id]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically this command lets you create a Certificate using your ECMWF User Identifier and your Security Token. that Certificate? absolutely required if you wanna use the ECtools. no cert, no vibes, no access. 💅

it gets stored in your home directory at $HOME/.eccert.crt — home sweet home, but make it cryptographic.

and listen: if you don't pass your ECMWF User Identifier on the command-line, don't stress, it will just prompt you for it. the command is polite like that. 🫶

🌈 ARGUMENTS 🌈

  • user-id (optional) — The ECMWF User Identifier to use.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -version — Displays the version number and then exits. bye bestie 👋
  • -help — Prints a brief help message and exits. the little snack version of help.
  • -manual — Prints the manual page and exits. hi, that's literally what you're reading rn 😭
  • -retry count — Number of SSL connection retries per 5s to ECMWF. lowkey important: this parameter only applies to the initial SSL connection initiated by the command to the ECMWF server. it does NOT apply to all the subsequent requests made afterwards, because it's mainly targeting errors that can happen from time to time during the SSL handshake. Default is no retry. so if you leave it out, it's giving zero second chances. 💀
  • -debug — Display the SOAP and SSL messages exchanged. the receipts, the whole group chat, all of it. 🔥

👑 EXAMPLES 👑

ecaccess-certificate-create xyz

Create a new ECaccess Certificate for the ECMWF User Identifier xyz and store it in the "$HOME/.eccert.crt" File. periodt. 💖

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

ecaccess-certificate-list and ecaccess.

okay that's the whole page, you ate it, you read every single line, iconic behavior fr fr. this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-10-22, from the ECACCE...-CREATE(1p) era — mwah, mwah, go create that certificate bestie 💅🌸✨

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