open-vault/website/source/docs/commands/auth/help.html.md
Seth Vargo c5665920f6
Standardize on "auth method"
This removes all references I could find to:

- credential provider
- authentication backend
- authentication provider
- auth provider
- auth backend

in favor of the unified:

- auth method
2017-10-24 09:32:15 -04:00

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docs auth help - Command docs-commands-auth-help The "auth help" command prints usage and help for an auth method.

auth help

The auth help command prints usage and help for an auth method.

  • If given a TYPE, this command prints the default help for the auth method of that type.

  • If given a PATH, this command prints the help output for the auth method enabled at that path. This path must already exist.

Each auth method produces its own help output.

Examples

Get usage instructions for the userpass auth method:

$ vault auth help userpass
Usage: vault login -method=userpass [CONFIG K=V...]

  The userpass auth method allows users to authenticate using Vault's
  internal user database.

# ...

Print usage for the auth method enabled at my-method/

$ vault auth help my-method/
# ...

Usage

There are no flags beyond the standard set of flags included on all commands.