X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/99fce0af0d4e99bc81ef7847bfbe77662763e805..9cf779de2f119a5cc77b8875db9acb30c749b613:/doc/tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki.mdwn diff --git a/doc/tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki.mdwn index 69083a9a5..b649636dc 100644 --- a/doc/tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[meta title="inside .ikiwiki"]] +[[!meta title="inside .ikiwiki"]] The `.ikiwiki` directory contains ikiwiki's internal state. Normally, you don't need to look in it, but here's some tips for how to do so if @@ -51,14 +51,14 @@ To dump the entire database contents: 'email' => 'joey@kitenet.net', [...] -Editing values is simply a matter of changing values and calling Storable::nstore(). -So to change a user's password: +Editing values is simply a matter of changing values and calling `Storable::nstore()`. +So to change a user's email address: - joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki> perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); $userinfo->{"foo"}->{email}=q{foo@bar}; Storable::lock_nstore($userinfo, "underdb")' + joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki> perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); $userinfo->{"foo"}->{email}=q{foo@bar}; Storable::lock_nstore($userinfo, "userdb")' To remove that user: - joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki> perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); delete $userinfo->{"foo"}; Storable::lock_nstore($userinfo, "underdb")' + joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki> perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); delete $userinfo->{"foo"}; Storable::lock_nstore($userinfo, "userdb")' I've not written actual utilities to do this yet because I've only needed to do it rarely, and the data I've wanted has been different each time.