Configure an API Credentials File on Windows

You can configure a Veracode API credentials file on Windows and, optionally, use encryption to secure the file.

Before You Begin

• You have generated Veracode API credentials.
• Depending on your Veracode integration, you have added your Veracode API credentials to the [default] application profile. If you have an existing [greenlight] profile, delete it or rename it to [default].

Steps

1. In File Explorer, go to C:\Users\{username}, where username is the folder for your user profile.

2. Add a new folder to your user folder named .veracode., adding a final period to the name.

   The extra period at the end of the folder name specifies to File Explorer that you want to create a folder that starts with a period. The second period disappears after you create the folder.

3. Open a text editor, such as Notepad, and add your Veracode API credentials to a new file in this format:

   [default]
   veracode_api_key_id = {your_api_key_id}
   veracode_api_key_secret = {your_api_secret_key}
   

   The spaces around the equals sign (=) are not required.

4. Select File > Save As and enter "credentials" in the File name field. Including the quotation marks ensures that Notepad does not add a file extension. If you create the file with a file extension, right-click the file, choose Properties, and remove the file extension in the window.

5. Click Save.

6. Optionally, you can use the Advanced Attributes window in Windows to enable the Encrypt contents to secure data option on the credentials file. Enabling this option restricts user access to the file.