[rt-users] How to create users with CLI without being prompted for password

[Todd Chapman]

I think the rt command looks for the environment variables
RTUSER and RTPASSWD for authentication to the RT server.

Yes:

    Environment variables:

        The following environment variables override any corresponding
        values defined in configuration files:

        - RTUSER
        - RTPASSWD
        - RTSERVER
        - RTDEBUG       Numeric debug level. (Set to 3 for full logs.)
        - RTCONFIG      Specifies a name other than ".rtrc" for the
                        configuration file. 
        - RTQUERY       Default RT Query for rt list 
        - RTORDERBY     Default order for rt list


-Todd

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:22:44PM -0400, Tomasz Wlodek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to create users using command line interface. I do:
> 
> ./rt create -t user set username=test1 emailaddress=a at b.com password=testpwd
> 
> But then rt asks me for password:
> 
> >Password:
> 
> Question 1: Which password does it want? the root pwd for RT mysql
> database? or the superuser password?
> 
> Question 2: Can I get rid of the password question? My users will be
> created automatically in a script which calls "rt create ...".
> 
> I see in the rt code subroutine
> 
> read_passwd sub read_passwd {
>     eval 'require Term::ReadKey';
>     if ($@) {
>         die "No password specified (and Term::ReadKey not installed).\n";
>     }
> 
>     print "Password: ";
>     Term::ReadKey::ReadMode('noecho');
>     chomp(my $passwd = Term::ReadKey::ReadLine(0));
>     Term::ReadKey::ReadMode('restore');
>     print "\n";
> 
>     return $passwd;
> }
> 
> What will happen if I throw away content of this routine and make it
> return the mysql root password?
> 
> Is there a simpler way to bypass the password question?
> 
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