How to store password to Nextcloud in external file?

[Susrex]

Hi!

Thanks for creating the software. It has been very pleasant and joyful to work with.

I backup my file to nextcloud. Is there a way how to store password to nextcloud in an external txt file? It works for me with the encryption password. Unfortunately I was not able to make it work with the nextcloud password.

This is the minimal config required:

[repository]
repository = "opendal:webdav"
password-file = "/home/..../encryption_password.txt"

[repository.options]
endpoint = "https://cloud.nextcloud.org"
root = "/remote.php/webdav/rustic_backup/"
username = "user"
# password-file = "nextcloud_password.txt" # Not working
password = "/home/..../secretNextcloudPassword" # Works

If it is not possible, is there a workaround? I couldn't find much in the docs about submitting password to nextcloud in another way. Thanks for your help!

[aawsome]

Hi @Susrex!

For nextcloud/webdav access we rely on OpenDAL for the access to the backend and [repository.options] does directly specify the opendal options. There no password-file option is available.

You however have have two options to refer to other places here:

• set the env variable OPENDAL_PASSWORD to your password
• create a single profile file (e.g. password-file.toml) only containing

[repository.options]
password = "XXX..."

and include this via

[global]
use-profiles = ["password-file"]  # can also be the full path to the file

[Susrex]

Thanks for the explanation. Using the profile for password is a good work around.