Recently I had to update a few hundreds repository mirror authentication details; after just a handful I explored the API and was surprised that the API had not route available to achieve this.

After some poking around; the repositories stored at the GITEA data path (repository storage) the config file contains the username and password/token combination as part of the url.

This provides us with something that can be used in a find and replace operation.

A script I put together for similar find and replace operations (SSL certificate names) found at: Find and replace script could be used here. Or alternatively you may form your own method.

The flow:

• Identify the string to be replaced.
• Form the replacement.
• Test a dry-run.

Script arguments

usage() {
    echo "Replacer usage: $0 [OPTIONS]"
    echo "Performs a search and replace operation across all files in a directory."
    echo "Required:"
    echo "  -d, --directory PATH      Path to perform operation"
    echo "  -s, --search STR          Search term" 
    echo "  -r, --replace STR         Replacement term" 
    echo "  -n, --name STR            Limit files to a specific name" 
}

Example usage

As an example, the following replaces a search term recursively on all files within a path limit the filename to “config” the dryrun flag will print files that would be changed:

bash replacer.sh -d "/path/to/data/gitea-repositories/" -s "https://oauth2:old-secret-to-replace@github.com" -r "https://oauth2:new-secret-here@github.com" --name "config" --dryrun