mattermost-session-cookie-firefox is a script to obtain the session cookie from
a mattermost webclient. It is designed to be used with the tokencmd
configuration option of
matterhorn for mattermost
instances that do not allow username/password or personal access token login.
/bin/sh- firefox
- curl
- sqlite3
$ mattermost-session-cookie-firefox
Usage: mattermost-session-cookie-firefox WEBCLIENT_URL [PROFILE]
To use the script with firefox, add this script to your $PATH and something
like the following to your matterhorn config.ini:
tokencmd: mattermost-session-cookie-firefox my.mattermost.host.com my-firefox-profile-name
First, the cookie file for the provided or otherwise the first found firefox
profile is located. Then, it is tried to extract the value of the MMAUTHTOKEN
cookie for the desired webclient host and if that succeeds, a test api call to
the specified host is made. If the cookie is present and the api call succeeds,
the cookie value is printed to stdout. Otherwise, a webpage is opened in the
browser (firefox) which asks the user to log in using the webclient of the
mattermost instance. In the meantime, the above cookie retrieval and check
procedure is repeated until it succeeds.