Question about .netrc/keyring

[nielsk]

Hi,

I finally wanted to move passwords out of my config-file and looked into the documentation for vdirsyncer but it is totally unclear to me what I actually have to use for my case.

The .netrc states

machine someFQDN
login user
password somepass

The keyring says:

vdirsyncer:someFQDN

I have several calendars I use via caldav.
They have the attributes:

[storage some_calendar_remote]
type = caldav
auth = guess
url = https://p01-caldav.icloud.com/99999999/calendars/XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXX/
username = mymail@address.org
password = mycleartextpass

What would the .netrc or keyring-entry look like? What do I have to use as the machine-name? The URL? And then I leave the url in the entry and remove username and password? Or is it just p01-caldav.icloud.com I have to use as machine name?

Btw. you do not support an external command like offlineimap does, do you?

[untitaker]

Whatever I'll respond with will be irrelevant for the next version, where everything changes.

Look at docs/keyring.rst in the repo for the behavior the current master implements. Hopefully this new behavior is easier to understand.

On 6 October 2015 16:42:57 CEST, "Niels Kobschätzki" notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi,

I finally wanted to move passwords out of my config-file and looked
into the documentation for vdirsyncer but it is totally unclear to me
what I actually have to use for my case.

The
.netrc
states

machine someFQDN
login user
password somepass

The
keyring
says:

vdirsyncer:someFQDN

I have several calendars I use via caldav.
They have the attributes:

[storage some_calendar_remote]
type = caldav
auth = guess
url =
https://p01-caldav.icloud.com/99999999/calendars/XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXX/
username = mymail@address.org
password = mycleartextpass

What would the .netrc or keyring-entry look like? What do I have to use
as the machine-name? The URL? And then I leave the url in the entry and
remove username and password? Or is it just p01-caldav.icloud.com I
have to use as machine name?

Btw. you do not support an external command like offlineimap
does,
do you?

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[untitaker]

Master docs are also available when selecting "latest" in the version selector in the bottom left corner of the docs. Password fetching docs for master: https://vdirsyncer.readthedocs.org/en/latest/keyring.html

[nielsk]

Thanks a lot; I wait for the next version. And then I will experiment how a script would have to look to get the password from a gpg-encrypted file