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+#!/bin/bash
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+# Just a simple script that checks, if a user exists by using the REST Api
+
+BASE_URL="http://localhost:8080/archiva"
+USER_NAME="admin"
+PASSWD="admin456"
+
+CHECK_USER=$1
+
+
+#Authenticate
+TOKEN=$(curl -s -X POST "${BASE_URL}/api/v2/redback/auth/authenticate" -H "accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+ -d "{\"grant_type\":\"authorization_code\",\"client_id\":\"test-bash\",\"client_secret\":\"string\",\"code\":\"string\",\"scope\":\"string\",\"state\":\"string\",\"user_id\":\"${USER_NAME}\",\
+ \"password\":\"${PASSWD}\",\"redirect_uri\":\"string\"}"|sed -n -e '/access_token/s/.*"access_token":"\([^"]\+\)".*/\1/gp')
+if [ "${TOKEN}" == "" ]; then
+ echo "Authentication failed!"
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+echo curl -I -w ' - %{http_code}' "${BASE_URL}/api/v2/redback/users/${CHECK_USER}" -H "accept: application/json" \
+ -H "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
+ -H "Content-Type: application/json"
+
+curl -I -w ' - %{http_code}' "${BASE_URL}/api/v2/redback/users/${CHECK_USER}" -H "accept: application/json" \
+ -H "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
+ -H "Content-Type: application/json"