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48 lines
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---
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name: gitea-token-from-http-credential-store
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description: "Extract the Dankclaw Gitea token from ~/.config/secrets/gitea (it is the URL password, not key=value lines) for API calls, and diagnose the silent empty-token trap that makes public-repo reads pass while writes fail."
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---
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The Gitea credential store line on Frank's boxes is **http** (not https) with a percent-encoded port, and the **token is the URL password** — there are NO `username=`/`password=` lines:
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```
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http://dank:<40-char-token>@192.168.0.143%3a3000
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```
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## Extraction that actually works
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```bash
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tok=$(sed -nE 's#^[a-z]+://[^:]+:([^@]+)@.*#\1#p' ~/.config/secrets/gitea | head -1)
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echo "tok len ${#tok}" # must be 40 — assert before any call
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cfg=$(mktemp); chmod 600 "$cfg"; printf 'header = "Authorization: token %s"\n' "$tok" > "$cfg"
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curl -s -K "$cfg" http://192.168.0.143:3000/api/v1/<path>
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rm -f "$cfg" # in the SAME session: the file holds a live token
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```
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## `git credential-store --file … fill` answers EMPTY — do not debug it
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Tried 2026-10-21 while opening `dank/command-center` PR #61: the obvious extraction
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```bash
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printf 'protocol=http\nhost=192.168.0.143\nport=3000\n\n' | git credential-store --file ~/.config/secrets/gitea fill
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```
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prints **nothing**, with no error. Not permissions, not a wrong path: the stored line encodes the port inside the host field (`@192.168.0.143%3a3000`), so a `host=`+`port=` query can never match it. Add `path=` or drop `port=` and it still answers empty. Read the file with `sed` (recipe above) and move on — the chain `TOKEN=$(…) && [ -n "$TOKEN" ] && …` fails silently at the test, which reads like a curl failure because the `&&` hides which link broke.
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## The silent-empty-token trap (bit 2026-10-21, cost a debug detour)
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An `awk -F= '/^username=/{...}'` parse of this file yields `tok=""` **silently** — and reads still appear to work when the repo is **public**: `dank/serverAppConfigs` and `dank/command-center` return real issue/label data unauthenticated, so every census "passes" until the first **write** (issue comment, label, PR create/merge) fails with `{"message":"token is always required"}`-style errors or 404s (private repos 404 on an empty token — that is an auth problem, NOT a missing repo).
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- `echo "tok len ${#tok}"` (must be 40) before believing ANY API result — reads included.
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- Prove auth once per session: `GET /api/v1/user` → `"login":"dank"`.
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- `curl -s -K <600-perm file>` carrying `header = "Authorization: token $tok"` — never `-H` on argv (`/proc/<pid>/cmdline` is world-readable; this leaked an HF token once).
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- `jq -n --arg t … --arg h … --arg b "$(/bin/cat /tmp/pr.md)" '{…}'` — `$(cat file)` gets optimised away in this harness, so use `--rawfile b /tmp/pr.md` instead.
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## Other notes
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- `git credential fill` fails headless here (`could not read Username … terminal prompts disabled`); read the store file directly instead.
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- Never print the token: mask when inspecting the file —
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`sed -E 's#(://[^:]+:)[^@]+@#\1REDACTED@#' ~/.config/secrets/gitea`
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- Merge writes need form-encoded fields, not JSON — see `gitea-pr-api-cycle`.
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- Issue/PR numbers are **per repo**: `dank/dankvoice` #8–#11 (refactor, hardening, AbortError fix, menu defects) are unrelated to `dank/command-center` #8–#11 (SDLC, trunk-law). Read the body from the repo the work targets before referencing an issue in a commit message.
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