Is authentication required for validation?

[liningpan]

Previously, we don't need to provide username and password for validation, but this recent change suggests otherwise.

https://github.com/NDAR/nda-tools/blob/16e8c26abb364dde51c205891b5c6b40f32b0a69/NDATools/Validation.py#L61

[gregmagdits]

Right. I believe we want to allow users to validate without providing credentials so we might be updating this back to the way it worked before. Until that is available though you will need to provide your NDA creds

[liningpan]

But I think auth_req is false when doing validation, it won't prompt for password neither will it try to read from keyring

https://github.com/NDAR/nda-tools/blob/16e8c26abb364dde51c205891b5c6b40f32b0a69/NDATools/clientscripts/vtcmd.py#L115-L128

[liningpan]

So, for now I also need the -b flag as described here #53?

[gregmagdits]

The -b flag is supposed to be used when you are actually trying to submit data to NDA (as opposed to just validating data). That being said, if you pass the -b flag it will trigger the logic in the code that prompts for the password & checks keyring, so you can use it as a temporary workaround until the issue you noted above is corrected. Just make sure to ctl-C and exit the program once it starts asking for the dataset title and description if you are not ready to actually submit data.

[liningpan]

I see. When can we expect this issue to be fixed?

[gregmagdits]

We did not have a specific date planned yet for the next release, but if this is causes users enough hassle, we could put one out this week or the following week.

[gregmagdits]

The fix for this has been deployed. NDA credentials do not need to be provided when validating. The -b flag does not need to be provided to avoid the bad-credentials error