Strategy for saving username and password of nextcloud server?

[kflak]

Hi,

I am really enjoying calfw now that I have managed to pull my calendar from my nextcloud provider, but I would prefer not to have to type in my username and (very long string of random characters) password every time I fire up emacs. Is there a way to pull this information from f.x. pass or authinfo?

[haji-ali]

I assume you are using the ical interface?

If so, you probably would need to customize calfw-ical-url-to-buffer-get to a function that returns a buffer given the url, after authentication. I would need more info about your setup, including how you're input your password/username.

[kflak]

Hi @haji-ali,

Thanks for the work on this library!

Yes, I am using the ical interface like this:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/build/emacs-calfw")
(require 'calfw)
(require 'calfw-ical)
(setq calendar-week-start-day 1)
(customize-set-variable 'calfw-display-calendar-holidays nil)

(defun my-open-calendar ()
  (interactive)
  (calfw-open-calendar-buffer
   :contents-sources
   (list
    (calfw-ical-create-source "personal"
                              "https://nextcloud05.webo.cloud/remote.php/dav/calendars/<username>/personal/?export"
                              "Purple"))))

When I run M-x my-open-calendar I am asked for my username and password in the minibuffer.

[haji-ali]

@kflak, I believe you can change calfw-ical-calendar-external-shell-command to include the username/password. You also could add these to .wgetrc, see
https://www.man7.org/linux//man-pages/man1/wget.1.html

[kflak]

Hi,

It's probably me being a moron as usual, but I can't get any of those to work. I still get asked for password and username when I fire up the calendar, both when changing the shell command in the source file, as well as adding it to the .wgetrc....

[haji-ali]

How did you add the username/password to calfw-ical-calendar-external-shell-command and what is the value of calfw-ical-url-to-buffer-get in your setup?

[kflak]

I tried this:

(defvar calfw-ical-calendar-external-shell-command "wget --user=<username> --password=<password>

and

user=<username>
password=<password>

in .wgetrc.