‘Context’ I’m setting up an API only user for analytics, but the instructions say - ‘If you would like to use your API user by default for automated workflows and still use

fleetctl

with your standard user account, you can set up your

fleetctl

config with a new

context

to hold the credentials for your admin user using the

--context

flag:’ I’m not really understanding the purpose here- I’ll probably need fleetctl access at some point, but what happens if I don’t do this?

Hey Adam can you point me to the part of the docs referencing this?

@Adam Connor the context really just allows you to use multiple users in

fleetctl

without having to log out when switching between them. If you were logged in as the API user and wanted to switch to your standard account, you'd just use

fleetctl

logout

to log out of the API-only user,

fleetctl

login

with the other account, then repeat the process to log back in to the API-only user.

thanks for the explanation @Kathy Satterlee that does make sense! @koo the info is about 2/3 down this page in a section called “using fleetctl with an API only user’ https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/fleetctl-cli

Any time!

Thanks @Adam Connor