How to authenticate UAPI in Postman

Erik Thiart (PHP Dev)

• June 23, 2021 07:16

Hello guys, What authentication method must be used in Postman to connect to UAPI? The documentation here did not specify:

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • June 23, 2021 16:11

  Hey there! API tokens are not used for the cPanel API, but only for root WHMAPI functions, so you wouldn't be able to use a token for this work. We have some additional details on the authentication tools available here: Can you work through that and see if that clears things up?

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  Ram Freedman

  • July 04, 2021 19:13

  API tokens are not used for the cPanel API, but only for root WHMAPI functions,

  
  This is strange... As far as I see in the

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • July 06, 2021 14:08

  @Ram Freedman - I don't know what me from a week ago was thinking, but the API tokens are definitely the way to go! I must have mis-read something that day. I can't say how they would get integrated with Postman though, since that isn't something we make or support on our side. If you're performing the query remotely I would expect the example you provided to work (curl -H'Authorization: cpanel username:APITOKEN' '

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