My employer has set up self-hosted Netbird, with peer login expiration set to 48 hours, which I use via the CLI (Linux). This means that every other morning, at some point Netbird will shut down and my network tasks will silently stop working. Since it’s 48 hours from the previous time I authenticated, and it takes some time for me to realize I have a problem, this happens later and later each morning.
When I get into work, I’d like to immediately trigger this expiration. I’d then go through the authentication process, and know that I was good for the rest of the day. However, it seems that netbird down and then netbird up won’t do it. Until that 48 hours expires, the netbird up command is accepted with just “Connected”; assuming Netbird implemented this correctly, then this cannot be a workaround for the 48 hour authentication, so that 48 hour expiration is still ticking.
As a workaround, I’ve been using the following script (which I call netbird-refresh):
#!/usr/bin/env bash
PROFILE="work"
MGMT_URL="https://netbird.example.com:443"
netbird down
netbird profile select default
netbird profile remove "$PROFILE" || true
netbird profile add "$PROFILE"
netbird up --profile "$PROFILE" --management-url "$MGMT_URL"
This works, but is there a built-in command to trigger early expiration of peer authentication?