How To Use "Basic Auth Credentials" In Scripts?

JDX7913 · ‎01-07-2021

What do I type in a business rule or scheduled job to access the credentials on the basic_auth_credentials table?

Right now, for testing purposes, I have the password and username in plain text, but of course, I would like to move that over the basic_auth_credentials table and have the script access the table to get the password and username.

I tried to look up sample code, but most of what I found on ServiceNow's doc are C#, VB, etc., and not for JavaScript. Moreover, some docs are on basic auth credentials, but it is mainly on how it works and not how to access via JavaScript from a script.

Kieran Anson · ‎01-07-2021

Hi,

There is an API for this called StandardCredentialsProvider. It allows you to easily and securely get the credentials from a credentials record.

Example use (sys_id is the id of the credential record):

var provider = sn_cc.StandardCredentialsProvider()
var credential = provider.getCredentialByID('41cc709cdb144c101bdb5a75dc961990');

var userName = credential.getAttribute("user_name");
var password = credential.getAttribute("password");

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Yuvan Raj Kuma1 · ‎03-02-2024

@js20 that id is the sys_id of your credential record.

IsraeH · ‎07-01-2024

i think it should be a "new" here:

var provider = new sn_cc.StandardCredentialsProvider()

ReginaldFawcett · ‎07-08-2024

Something I found when trying to get @Kieran Anson 's code to work, was that I had to add 'new' in front of 'sn_cc.StandardCredentialsProvider()', as below

var provider = new sn_cc.StandardCredentialsProvider()
var credential = provider.getCredentialByID('41cc709cdb144c101bdb5a75dc961990');

var userName = credential.getAttribute("user_name");
var password = credential.getAttribute("password");