Praetorian CLI and SDK

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Table of Contents

• Description
• Getting started
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
  • Signing up
• Using the CLI
• Using scripts
• Developers
• Contributing
• Support
• License

Description

Praetorian CLI and SDK are open-source tools for interacting with our products and services. Currently, they support access to Chariot, our offensive security platform.
The SDK exposes the full set of APIs that the Chariot UI uses.
The CLI is a fully-featured companion to the Chariot UI.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python v3.9 or above
• pip v23.0 or above

Installation

Install the Python package using this command:

pip install praetorian-cli

Signing up

Register for an account for Chariot using the instructions in our documentation.

Authentication

Once you can properly access Chariot through the UI. You can obtain API credentials through the UI under Settings -> User Settings -> API Keys. Be sure to careful copy the API credentials you created as you will need to provide them to the CLI for interacting with Chariot.

Note: SSO Organizations should provision access through API Keys as well.

Using API Keys

This is the authentication method for CLI. You can authenticate using either a keychain file or environment variables.

Using the keychain file

This method stores your API key in a keychain file.

1. Run praetorian configure and follow the prompts to set up authentication. Use the default values for profile name, URL of backend API, and client ID.
2. It creates ~/.praetorian/keychain.ini, which should read like this:

[United States]
name = chariot
client_id = 795dnnr45so7m17cppta0b295o
api = https://d0qcl2e18h.execute-api.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/chariot
api_key_id = your-api-key-id-here
api_key_secret = your-api-key-here

Using environment variables

This method uses in-memory environment variables to pass your API key to the CLI. There is no need for a keychain file on disk. This enables you to choose a credential storage method suitable for your use cases. To use this method, set the following environment variable:

export PRAETORIAN_CLI_API_KEY_ID=your-api-key-id-here
export PRAETORIAN_CLI_API_KEY_SECRET=your-api-key-here

For more advanced configuration options or managing access in SSO organizations see the documentation on configuration.

Using the CLI

The CLI is a command and option utility for accessing the full suite of Chariot's API. You can see the documentation for commands using the help option:

praetorian chariot --help

As an example, run the following command to retrieve the list of all assets in your account:

praetorian --account [email protected] chariot list assets

You can obtain the account argument by viewing the email of the first user on the Users page in your Chariot account, as shown below:

To get detailed information about a specific asset, run:

praetorian --account [email protected] chariot get asset <ASSET_KEY>

Developers

Both CLI and SDK is open-source in this repository. The SDK is installed along with the praetorian-cli package. You can extend Chariot by creating scripts using the SDK.

SDK

Integrate the SDK into your own Python application with the following steps:

1. Include the dependency praetorian-cli in your project.
2. Import the Chariot class from praetorian_cli.sdk.chariot import Chariot.
3. Import the Keychain class from praetorian_cli.sdk.keychain import Keychain.
4. Call any function of the Chariot class, which expose the full backend API. See example below:

from praetorian_cli.sdk.chariot import Chariot
from praetorian_cli.sdk.keychain import Keychain

chariot = Chariot(Keychain(account='[email protected]'))
chariot.add('asset', dict(name='example.com', dns='example.com'))

The best place to explore the SDK is the code of the CLI, especially the handlers of the CLI

You can inspect the handler code to see how each CLI command is implemented with the SDK.

Developing external scripts

The CLI has a scripting engine that allow external scripts to be executed within the CLI's framework, taking advantage of the SDK, click, and authentication.

To add those external scripts to the CLI, set the PRAETORIAN_SCRIPTS_PATH environment to point to directories where you store additional extension scripts.

Those external scripts are available under the script commands. To see a list of them:

praetorian --account [email protected] chariot script --help

For developing scripts, you can refer to this readme file.

Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community, from scripts, to the core CLI and SDK. To contribute, fork this repository and following the GitHub instructions to create pull requests.

By contributing, you agree to our Code of Conduct.

Support

If you have any questions or need support, please open an issue here or reach out via [email protected].

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.