In VS Code using M2M successfully for months, all of the sudden I get:

The  authentication ID is not available. Check your authentication credentials and try again.

Watch the video here: https://netsuiteprofessionals.slack.com/archives/C42JX79UZ/p1739190725988459?thread_ts=1739187967.948669&cid=C42JX79UZ

Thanks. So, bottom line: I’ll follow those steps to set up variable, but can I use M2M in VS Code? Or is that not recommended for some reason?

@ec Theoretically M2M is designed for CI/CD environments and browser based auth for normal dev machines as it offers more security for your credentials. But technically you can use M2M with all Suitecloud Tools including VSCode extension on your dev machine.

Thanks, @Ali Syed (NS DevTools QA). I’ve had issues with browser based timing out after 2-3 days. Not really useful when working across many accounts and timing out all the time. I’m also not always logged in to the environment in the browser when I need to push an update or run a comparison or attempt to validate my environment / sdf package

😢 great, I can now get even less done futzing with credentials

@barinvon I am here to help you if you get stuck. You will get used to this update, and it has some more layers of security for your credentials :)

@Ali Syed (NS DevTools QA) We use SDF for CI/CD. I’ve watched the video you linked about secure credential storage (thank you!), but I’m not understanding

SUITECLOUD_CI_PASSKEY

. Do I need to produce my certs with the same “passkey” e.g.:

openssl req -new -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 \
        -keyout "${privateKeyFileName}" \
        -sigopt rsa_padding_mode:pss -sha256 -sigopt rsa_pss_saltlen:64 \
        -days 730 \
        -passout pass:MySecurePassphrase123MopreTextMoreTextMoreText \
        -out "${publicKeyFileName}" \
        -subj "/C=US/ST=Illinois/L=Northbrook/O=foo"

What does this new environment variable

SUITECLOUD_CI_PASSKEY

match with, in terms of netsuite? Is there anything in netsuite that needs to know what my passkey is? My apologies, I’m not understanding the docs or the videos yet.

@Joel Musheno All these new environment variables including

SUITECLOUD_CI_PASSKEY

Are user-provided values. No relationship with NetSuite. The SUITECLOUD_CI_PASSKEY is used to secure your credentials_ci.p12 file which contains your tokens. You can set this environment variable

SUITECLOUD_CI_PASSKEY

locally with at least 32 alphanumeric characters. And then run accountsetupci command locally, which will save credentials in

credentials_ci.p12

you can use that same credentials file in your CI/CD environment also by providing the same

SUITECLOUD_CI_PASSKEY

in CI/CD environment

Ah, so I could just include these environment vars to my CI server and be done! Thank you. I will try!

Yes, for CI you will need

SUITECLOUD_CI_PASSKEY

and

SUITECLOUD_CI

Delete any existing credentials file, and you should be good to go.