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nsc

NATS account configurations are built using the nsc tool. The NSC tool allows you to:
Create and edit Operators, Accounts, Users
Manage publish and subscribe permissions for Users
Define Service and Stream exports from an account
Reference Service and Streams from another account
Generate Activation tokens that grants access to a private service or stream
Generate User credential files
Describe Operators, Accounts, Users, and Activations
Push and pull account JWTs to an account JWTs server
Installation
Installing nsc is easy:
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nats-io/nsc/master/install.py | python
Additional ways of installing nsc are described at nsc's github repository​
The script will download the latest version of nsc and install it into your system.
In case NSC is not initialized already do nsc init
Output of tree -L 2 nsc/
nsc/
├── accounts
│   ├── nats
│   └── nsc.json
└── nkeys
    ├── creds
    └── keys
5 directories, 1 file
IMPORTANT: nsc version 2.2.0 has been released. This version of nsc only supports nats-server v2.2.0 and nats-account-server v1.0.0. For more information please refer to the nsc 2.2.0 release notes.
Tutorials
You can find various task-oriented tutorials to working with the tool here:
​Basic Usage​
​Configuring Account Streams Import/Export​
​Configuring Account Services Import/Export​
​Signing Keys​
​Revoking Users or Activations​
​Working with Managed Operators​
Tool Documentation
For more specific browsing of the tool syntax, check out the nsc tool documentation. It can be found within the tool itself:
nsc help
Or an online version here.
Basics
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