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.
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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