Bug#889773: no clear how to use the programm. Does nothing?
Hi Tomas, > Oh, I see. My problem in understanding how to use kwalletcli stems > from the ambiguity of the word "folder". It can also mean a > directory, as in directory in the filesystem. No, only on Windows® really, and even there it’s wrong terminology people got used to over years of misuse (like using + to concatenate keys depressed simultaneously; I’ve got early Microsoft® manuals getting both things right). A folder is the thing in IMAP where you store eMails in, and the thing you put in a shelf, into which you put archived invoices and stuff like that. Well, in general IT terminology. In KDE Wallet terminology, a “folder” is like the DN of an LDAP entry, and an “entry” is like an attribute. > So what I was doing is: > > kwalletcli -e entry -f $PATH_TO_THE_WALLET The “PATH_TO_THE_WALLET” is called a Wallet in KDE Wallet terminology. kwalletcli only supports using the default wallet; KDE 5 ships another CLI which supports using ar‐ bitrary wallets, but requires the user to specify the one to use, so it does something different from kwalletcli. > May I suggest this patch to the man page to disambiguate the meaning > of folder or respectively to make it's context more clear, and to add > a simple example: I’ll think about it. I might not use the exact patch, but thanks for correcting my assumption that shipping four example scripts was enough. > +echo MYPASSWORD | kwalletcli -e Stackoverflow -f Websites -P 「\*(Ba」, not a raw 「|」; also, “echo” would add a newline, which breaks other users of the wallet data, as the newline would be interpreted as being part of the password (hence the “printf '%s' "$password"” in my example). bye, //mirabilos -- „Cool, /usr/share/doc/mksh/examples/uhr.gz ist ja ein Grund, mksh auf jedem System zu installieren.“ -- XTaran auf der OpenRheinRuhr, ganz begeistert (EN: “[…]uhr.gz is a reason to install mksh on every system.”)
Bug#889773: no clear how to use the programm. Does nothing?
Hi Thorsten, On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Tomas Pospisek dixit: How is this programm supposed to be used? Can you give an example in the man page? This is fully documented in the manpage: -P Read the password to write from standard input. Currently … and: Default mode of operation, that is, unless -P or -p are used, is to read the password from the Wallet and print it to standard output as-is, with‐ out any trailing newline. So, you can do something like: printf '%s' "$password" | kwalletcli -e foo -f bar -P password=$(kwalletcli -e foo -f bar) Oh, I see. My problem in understanding how to use kwalletcli stems from the ambiguity of the word "folder". It can also mean a directory, as in directory in the filesystem. So what I was doing is: kwalletcli -e entry -f $PATH_TO_THE_WALLET Which obviously won't show me an entry. May I suggest this patch to the man page to disambiguate the meaning of folder or respectively to make it's context more clear, and to add a simple example: $ diff -u kwalletcli.1 kwalletcli.1.patched --- kwalletcli.12018-02-06 23:02:16.784511603 +0100 +++ kwalletcli.1.patched2018-02-06 23:07:14.177657147 +0100 @@ -178,9 +178,9 @@ to use when accessing the Wallet. Mandatory. .It Fl f Ar folder -Set the +The .Ar folder -to use when accessing the Wallet. +inside the Wallet in which to search for the entry. Mandatory. .It Fl h Display the usage. @@ -249,6 +249,8 @@ .It Ev DISPLAY The X11 display to use for communicating with the KDE Wallet. .El +.Sh EXAMPLES +echo MYPASSWORD | kwalletcli -e Stackoverflow -f Websites -P .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr kwalletcli_getpin 1 .Sh AUTHORS Thanks a lot! *t
Bug#889773: no clear how to use the programm. Does nothing?
Package: kwalletcli Version: 3.00-1+b1 Severity: normal $ ls ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet/ kdewallet.kwl kdewallet.salt $ kwalletcli -f ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet/ -e foo -P [nothing happens] I can type some stuff and still nothing happens ^D $ same if I do $ kwalletcli -f ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet/kdewallet.kwl -e foo -P How is this programm supposed to be used? Can you give an example in the man page? *t -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_CH.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_CH:de (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages kwalletcli depends on: ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libgcc11:6.3.0-18 ii libkf5coreaddons5 5.28.0-2 ii libkf5i18n55.28.0-2 ii libkf5wallet-bin 5.28.0-3 ii libkf5wallet5 5.28.0-3 ii libqt5core5a 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5widgets5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18 ii mksh 54-2+b4 Versions of packages kwalletcli recommends: ii gnupg-agent 2.1.18-8~deb9u1 ii kwalletmanager 4:16.08.3-1 ii openssh-client 1:7.4p1-10+deb9u2 ii pinentry-gnome3 1.0.0-2 ii pinentry-gtk21.0.0-2 kwalletcli suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
