# Using gitlab personal access token to create secret

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**Category:** SUSE Rancher Prime\
**Created:** [January 12, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/using-gitlab-personal-access-token-to-create-secret/19255 "2021-01-12T17:03:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![rahmed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@rahmed](https://forums.suse.com/u/rahmed)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/using-gitlab-personal-access-token-to-create-secret/19255/1 "2021-01-12T17:03:13Z")

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kubectl -n validation create secret docker-registry b --docker-server=[registry.gitlab.com](http://registry.gitlab.com) --docker-username=RAhmed2 --docker-password=$TOKEN --docker-email=unused  
what should be value of $TOKEN in the above command?