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13 changes: 7 additions & 6 deletions pages/authzed/concepts/restricted-api-access.mdx
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Expand Up @@ -251,18 +251,19 @@ If you want to apply a configuration to an existing SpiceDB cluster without down
```sh
# Generate your secret (substitute your preferred method for generating a cryptographically-secure random string here)
# This will be a part of the token
base64 < /dev/random | head -c64
SECRET="$(base64 < /dev/random | head -c64)"; echo "$SECRET"
# g2l2/YjC3jFg6FdV080qiqBPvCrlLuc9GcHutgHF4WhVjsg7+AvlqLmoCrJEC68t

# Hash that secret using sha256sum
# This will go in your FGAM configuration as the token hash
# NOTE: truncate the trailing spaces and "-". You just want the alphanum characters.
echo -n "g2l2/YjC3jFg6FdV080qiqBPvCrlLuc9GcHutgHF4WhVjsg7+AvlqLmoCrJEC68t" | sha256sum
# 1d619ac2f5013845c5f2df93add92fc87e88ca6c57d19a77d1b189663f1ff5b0 -
HASH="$(echo -n "$SECRET" | sha256sum | cut -d" " -f1)"; echo "$HASH"
# 1d619ac2f5013845c5f2df93add92fc87e88ca6c57d19a77d1b189663f1ff5b0

# Add the prefix to create the token that you'll supply to your client
echo "sdbst_h256_g2l2/YjC3jFg6FdV080qiqBPvCrlLuc9GcHutgHF4WhVjsg7+AvlqLmoCrJEC68t"
# sdbst_h256_g2l2/YjC3jFg6FdV080qiqBPvCrlLuc9GcHutgHF4WhVjsg7+AvlqLmoCrJEC68t
# Add the prefix "sdbst_h256_" to create the token that you'll supply to your client
printf "token: sdbst_h256_%s\nhash: %s\n" "$SECRET" "$HASH"
# token: sdbst_h256_g2l2/YjC3jFg6FdV080qiqBPvCrlLuc9GcHutgHF4WhVjsg7+AvlqLmoCrJEC68t
# hash: 1d619ac2f5013845c5f2df93add92fc87e88ca6c57d19a77d1b189663f1ff5b0
```

2. Prepare the FGAM configuration YAML.
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