Provide password via command line to GUI client

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💻 Desktop sync client for Nextcloud

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Provide password via command line to GUI client #1348

Open supertrianguloid opened 5 years ago

supertrianguloid commented 5 years ago

Hi,

I have tried and failed to find a way of providing the password to the nextcloud linux client via command line or something similar. Is there any way to do this? I do not use gnome keyring but have a more custom solution for password management.

edent commented 5 years ago

Best solution I've found it to create an App Password in settings/user/security on your server.

You should then be able to pass it using -p on the command line.

supertrianguloid commented 5 years ago

This does not appear to work, it works for the cli but I want to be able to log in to the continuous-sync gui application.

hamoid commented 4 years ago

Same here. To further describe the issue, every time I open nextcloud it

launches a web page
I need to enter the user name
enter the password
click on authorize
close the browser tab
click on the nextcloud window
maybe minimize that window? not sure

keepassxc helps with entering the credentials, but still, not very convenient. Would be great if it was launch and go. Maybe it could use my ssh key to log in?

mrchainman commented 3 years ago

It would be great to have something in the nextcloud.cfg file like "password_command" so that one could fetch the password from wherever like pass which uses GPG to store encrypted passwords.