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authorChristian Heusel <christian@heusel.eu>2023-02-13 14:58:42 +0100
committerLevente Polyak <anthraxx@archlinux.org>2023-05-20 00:08:12 +0200
commit5e22e4f81e61f4ad2228366439be00b691284894 (patch)
tree21073e1d71a9f1f318effe6d8fe37bc46f86f2f4 /doc/man/pkgctl-auth-login.1.asciidoc
parenta981ef40e84398475cfe04ac49b8118385249a96 (diff)
config: allow suppying the gitlab token via env var
This would allow to supply the gitlab tokens via the env var DEVTOOLS_GITLAB_TOKEN and therefore allow users to choose whatever program they want to fill this env var. Closes #113 Signed-off-by: Christian Heusel <christian@heusel.eu> Signed-off-by: Levente Polyak <anthraxx@archlinux.org>
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@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ Interactively authenticate with the GitLab instance.
The minimum required scopes for the token are: 'api', 'write_repository'.
+The GitLab API token can either be stored in a plaintext file in
+'$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/devtools/gitlab.conf', or supplied via the
+'DEVTOOLS_GITLAB_TOKEN' environment variable using any command (gpg, vault,
+password manager) by declaring a shell alias:
+
+ $ alias pkgctl='DEVTOOLS_GITLAB_TOKEN="$(command to obtain token)" pkgctl'
+
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