get_user

It is possible to pull down all data (in python pickle form) for a given user via CLI (e.g. using curl). Among other things, this requires an admin key in the settings_private.cfg file.

After a fresh install, v1/settings_private.cfg should look like this:

[admin]
admin_key   = SET THIS TO A SECURE, UNIQUE VALUE IF RUNNING IN PRODUCTION

[smtp]
host        = smtp.gmail.com
pass        = SMTPPASSWORD
name        = [email protected]
name_pretty = KDM-Manager Administrator
no-reply    = [email protected]

In order to run get_user, follow these steps:

1. On the server, change the admin_key value to something that can go nicely in a parameter string (I like to use a 12 character, random string).
2. Get the user's ID, which is the bson-style Object ID of the user.
3. From the client, make sure you've got curl installed, and then do this:

$ curl kdm-manager.com/get_user?admin_key=YOURADMINKEY\&u_id=THEUSERSOBJECTID > user_data.pickle

NB: make sure you escape the ampersand, or else bash will treat it literally and you'll get an error about missing the u_id parameter.

This will dump all of the user's data (including avatars) into the new file, user_data.pickle, which you can then import into your local installation of the app, using admin.py:

toconnell@mona:~/kdm-manager/v1$ curl kdm-manager.com/get_user?admin_key=ADMINKEY\&u_id=USEROBJCETID > 2016-06-12_userdata.pickle
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  417k    0  417k    0     0   248k      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--  248k
toconnell@mona:~/kdm-manager/v1$ ./admin.py -i ~/qa/2016-06-12_userdata.pickle

If the user is not yours, i.e. and you do not know the password, the import command will ask you if you want to reset it to 'password'.