Credentials for importing from repos with secured webdav remotes

[mdekstrand]

I am trying to use import to import files from a repository that uses password-protected WebDAV as its remote, with the password in .dvc/config.local when working with that repository on its own.

However, when I try to import into another repository, it needs the WebDAV credentials. Is there any way to make them available short of committing them to the source repository? I have tried creating a remote in the destination repository with the same name, but that did not work.

For S3 remotes, there is no problem because the credentials are stored in ~/.aws/credentials.

[skshetry]

You can keep them in your global config.

dvc remote modify --global remote user $SECRET_USER
dvc remote modify --global remote password $SECRET_KEY

WebdavFileSystem also supports netrc.

eg:

# ~/.netrc should only be accessible to the current user
(umask 077; echo "machine $SECRET_HOSTNAME login $SECRET_USER password $SECRET_KEY" > ~/.netrc)

You may also be interested in https://github.com/iterative/dvc/issues/6416.

[mdekstrand]

Ooh, ~/.netrc worked and is a good solution. Now I'm stuck on another webdav remote bug (my remote is wevdavs://host/dav/bookdata, and it's trying to look at /dav/bookdata/dav/bookdata/??/name), but authentication seems to be working.