The dotnetrc util is a password storage utility that handles the formats of dot-netrc ($HOME/.netrc) and dot-gitcredentials ($HOME/.git-credentials).
The dot-netrc configuration file seems to have been born on BSD systems and it is implicitly read by both "git" and "curl" tools to get login information for remote sites.
It's format is described in "man 5 netrc" = https://linux.die.net/man/5/netrc
There is a python3 standard library module netrc as well. That's the reason why netrc.py was later renamed to this dotnetrc.py
The implementation here is extended that "machine" can also include a following prefix and both machine and prefix can use fnmatch "*" "?" to catch multiple remote machine names and paths.
If you are working with a jira on "https://my.site/jira" you can setup a file named "$HOME/.netrc" with
machine my.site login myname password P@ssw0rd
or you can put the elements on seperated lines but make sure "machine" starts the block.
machine my.site
login myname
password P@ssw0rd
For a login to Odoo or Qtest the login is a mail-adress
machine qtest.site login myname@company password P@ssw0rd
Be sure to set the file "chmod 0400 ~/.netrc". The script will warn about it.
The dot-gitcredentials was invented by the Git team to store credentials in cleartext. You need to enable it with
git config --global credential.helper store
This has the advantage that login information is always kept uptodate when you use git regularly. On the downside the git tool respects the auth path that was sent from the remote server which usually means that a match on the actually path after the machine name gets deleted.
The implementation here is extended that a match can include a following prefix and both machine and prefix can use fnmatch "*" "?" to catch multiple remote machine names and paths.
If you are working with a jira on "https://my.site/jira" you can setup a file named "$HOME/.git-credentials" with
https://myname:P@[email protected]
Make sure to allow the credentials file to be set by the user on the commandline.
from dotnetrc import set_password_filename
from optparse import OptionParser
cmdline = OptionParser("%prog files...")
cmdline.add_option("-g", "--gitcredentials", metavar="FILE", default="~/.netrc")
set_password_filename(opt.gitcredentials)
Use a target url to ask for the username/password tuple
import requests
from dotnetrc import get_username_password
requests.get(url, auth=get_username_password(url))