CLI warning on unrecognized parameters

Vault
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Issuing a vault token create -policy=xyz command on one of our Vault instances suddenly (?) yields a warning:

WARNING! The following warnings were returned from Vault:

  * Endpoint ignored these unrecognized parameters: [display_name entity_alias
  explicit_max_ttl num_uses period policies renewable ttl type]

Could anyone explain this message, its cause and potential implications and how to avoid it?

We are running Vault in a k8s Cluster with a Consul backend and recently upgraded to Version 1.11.2. I am actually quite sure never to have seen this message before…

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Support for warning about unrecognised parameters was recently added to Vault.

However it appears to have been done incorrectly, and generates spurious warnings about actually valid parameters with some APIs.

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Ah ok - thank you for clarification. :slight_smile: