Separat file for clisync credentials

[hirnschmalz]

I really love the ct sync script! We always try to NOT save credentials in our Git repositories for security reasons. So it a would be great if it would be possible to store credentials in a separat file (e.g. clisync-credentials.yml) and put this file in the .gitignore

[kitzberger]

Why don't you use ssh keys for logging into the remote server?

[hirnschmalz]

I do use SSH keys for authentication. It's the database credentials which I'm talking about.

[kitzberger]

Just put em into the .my.cnf file ;-)

[josefglatz]

@Kitzberger Are there already any possibilities to save db credentials for clisync.yml not in the file direct? If yes, could you tell me how you're doing this? We should add those information to our documentation

[kitzberger]

@josefglatz, since the user we're using to log onto the remote machine has got read access to the DB credentials in most cases anyway (for e.g. TYPO3 they're within LocalConfiguration.php), we'll simply put the DB credentials in the remote users home dir into the file .my.cnf:

[client]
user=typo3
password=secret_password
[mysql]
database=typo3_db

mysqldump does not like the database value to be specified in this file, so we're on specifying here for mysql. For this ct sync scenario it's not necessary at all (since the database mapping local_db:remote_db is mandatory in clisync.yml), but it's nice to just log on to the remote server via ssh, call mysql and jump right into the correct database without knowing shit.

Other db settings are possible, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/option-files.html for further information.