Cloudant Credentials

Description

General

• Documentation: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/cloudant

• Summary: Cloudant is an IBM cloud-based managed service. It is a document-oriented and distributed database. The service can be accessed via API calls. One of the authentication method consists in including both a username and the corresponding password. This authentication method is referred to as the legacy authentication in the documentation. Here is the quick start guide. Another authentication method consists in including both a username and the corresponding apikey. This authentication method is referred to as the IAM authentication in the documentation. Here is the quick start guide."

• IPs allowlist: IBM Cloudant customers who have a dedicated IBM Cloudant environment can allowlist IP addresses. See docs on security.

• Scopes: A role can be specified when creating credentials in the IBM Cloudant dashboard.

Revoke the secret

The secret can be revoked from the IBM Cloudant dashboard in the Service credentials tab.

Check for suspicious activity

As of the time of writing this documentation, this feature is not available.

Details for Cloudant Keys

• Family: credentials

• Category: cloud_provider

• Company: IBM

• High recall: False

• Validity check available: True

• Analyzer available: False

• On-premise instances exist: False

• Only valid secrets raise an alert: True

• Minimum number of matches: 2

• Occurrences found for one million commits: 0.03

• Prefixed: False

• PreValidators:

- type: FilenameBanlistPreValidator
  banlist_extensions: []
  banlist_filenames: []
  check_binaries: false
  include_default_banlist_extensions: true
  ban_markup: false
- type: ContentWhitelistPreValidator
  patterns:
    - bluemix

Examples

- text: |
    +    this.remotestore = new PouchDB(
    +      "https://4f621480-c3c9-41c6-bb2e-38fd4cce291f-bluemix:2f1f75eae487515172acc27e1203bd19d094f359bebb0f20ff69bb173cee3d4a@4f621480-c3c9-41c6-bb2e-38fd4cce291f-bluemix.cloudantnosqldb.appdomain.cloud/simple-chat-app"
    +    );

  client_id: 4f621480-c3c9-41c6-bb2e-38fd4cce291f-bluemix
  client_secret: 2f1f75eae487515172acc27e1203bd19d094f359bebb0f20ff69bb173cee3d4a
- text: +    this.remotestore = new PouchDB( +      "https://4f621480-c3c9-41c6-bb2e-38fd4cce291f-bluemix:2f1f75eae487515172acc27e1203bd19d094f359bebb0f20ff69bb173cee3d4a@4f621480-c3c9-41c6-bb2e-38fd4cce291f-bluemix.cloudantnosqldb.appdomain.cloud/simple-chat-app" +    );

  client_id: 4f621480-c3c9-41c6-bb2e-38fd4cce291f-bluemix
  client_secret: 2f1f75eae487515172acc27e1203bd19d094f359bebb0f20ff69bb173cee3d4a