https://blog.herlein.com/tags/api/ Recent content in Api on Greg Herlein Hugo en &copy; 2018-2026. All rights reserved. Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:01 -0800 https://blog.herlein.com/post/gofi-api-keys/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:01 -0800 https://blog.herlein.com/post/gofi-api-keys/ <p>There&rsquo;s a command line in the <a href="https://blog.herlein.com/post/gofi-static-dhcp-leases/">gofi post</a> I wrote ten days ago that has been quietly bugging me ever since I hit publish:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>gofips -H 10.20.30.1 -k --get &gt; hosts.conf </span></span></code></pre></div><p>Look at that <code>-k</code>. That&rsquo;s me telling the tool &ldquo;don&rsquo;t bother checking the TLS certificate.&rdquo; And the part you <em>can&rsquo;t</em> see is worse: my UniFi admin username and password, sitting in environment variables. Both of those were compromises I made to get the thing working. Neither of them sat well.</p>