NAME

metabase-profile - create a metabase profile

SYNOPSIS

  $ metabase-profile -o myprofile.json
  Enter full name: John Doe
  Enter email address: jdoe@example.com
  Enter password/secret: zqxjkh
  Writing profile to 'myprofile.json'

USAGE

The metabase-profile program makes it easy to create a user profile for submitting facts and reports to a Metabase server.

Valid options include:

  -o, --output  FILE      filename to save profile in
      --name    FULLNAME  full user name, eg "John Doe"
      --email   ADDRESS   user email address eg "jd@example.com"
      --secret  PASSWORD  password for authentication
  -h, --help              print man page

Unless an output filename is provided, the profile will be printed to STDOUT.

The profile contains a shared-secret password. Typically, when a Metabase server first receives a report from a new user profile, the shared secret is recorded and will be used to authenticate subsequent submissions. This file should not be shared publicly or made group or world readable.

Use the resulting profile according to the instructions of your Metabase client program. You may wish to copy it across computers if you would like to be identified consistently when submitting reports from different locations.

AUTHOR

• David A. Golden (DAGOLDEN)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2009 by David A. Golden

Licensed under the same terms as Perl itself (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. A copy of the License was distributed with this file or you may obtain a copy of the License from http://dev.perl.org/licenses/

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