DDUPDATE...O_KEYRING(8)

💖 DDUPDATE_NETRC_TO_KEYRING — the keyring glow-up tool 💖

okay so real quick, this is a page from the System Administration Utilities manual (section 8, we love a system-admin moment 👑), and it's all about ddupdate_netrc_to_keyring. yes the name is a whole mouthful, we'll get through it together bestie 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ddupdate_netrc_to_keyring — it's the ddupdate configuration migration tool, aka the lil script that moves your stuff from one place to a cuter place 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ddupdate_netrc_to_keyring

that's it. no flags, no args, no drama. she takes zero options and she serves 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, here's the vibe: it's a simple script. not a complicated one, not a scary one — a simple one. and what she does is:

• she reads all the entries in ~/.netrc 👀
• she copies them over to the system keyring 🔑

and she doesn't just dump them anywhere, no no. she writes them in a format that the ddupdate keyring authentication plugin can actually use. so like, it's not just moving boxes around, it's moving them into the right labeled boxes so the plugin can find them later. iconic behavior fr fr ✨

basically: ~/.netrc entries → system keyring → format compatible with the ddupdate keyring auth plugin. that's the whole journey. a glow-up, honestly 🌈

no cap, the whole point of this tool is migration — you're getting your config out of the old spot and into the keyring so ddupdate can authenticate like a main character. 💖

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• ddupdate(8) — go read that one too, bestie, that's where the actual ddupdate stuff lives 🫶

and that's the page!! no more sections, we ate and left no crumbs 😭✨

signing off with the receipts: this page comes from ddupdate-config, last changed Apr 2022 (yes, a lil vintage, still slaying 💜). mwah, go migrate those entries, i'm obsessed with you 🎀🦋💅