Unable to create API keys for an user using curl

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The initial account is admin / admin, so if you want to automate everything you can start with logging in with that, changing the password, and then generating an API key… Something like this (assuming the server is on localhost)

# Login token good for 1 minute
LOGINTOKEN=`curl -k -s 'https://127.0.0.1/v3-public/localProviders/local?action=login' -H 'content-type: application/json' --data-binary '{"username":"admin","password":"admin","ttl":60000}' | jq -r .token`

# Change password
curl -k -s 'https://127.0.0.1/v3/users?action=changepassword' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOGINTOKEN" --data-binary '{"currentPassword":"admin","newPassword":"something better"}'

# Create API key good forever
APIKEY=`curl -k -s 'https://127.0.0.1/v3/token' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOGINTOKEN" --data-binary '{"type":"token","description":"for scripts and stuff"}' | jq -r .token`
echo "API Key: ${APIKEY}"

# Set server-url
curl -k -s 'https://127.0.0.1/v3/settings/server-url' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIKEY" -X PUT --data-binary '{"name":"server-url","value":"https://your-rancher.com/"}'

# Do whatever else you want
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