[Galene] Re: Anonymous access

[Francis Bolduc <fbolduc@gmail.com>]

Thanks Michael, Juliusz,

I was able to setup my groups with the following commands:


galenectl create-group -group alouette
galenectl create-group -group cacahuete
galenectl create-group -group pirouette

echo '{"public":true}' | galenectl update-group -group alouette -json
echo '{"public":true}' | galenectl update-group -group cacahuete -json
echo '{"public":true}' | galenectl update-group -group pirouette -json

galenectl create-user -group alouette -wildcard
galenectl create-user -group cacahuete -wildcard
galenectl create-user -group pirouette -wildcard

galenectl set-password -group alouette -wildcard -type wildcard
galenectl set-password -group cacahuete -wildcard -type wildcard
galenectl set-password -group pirouette -wildcard -type wildcard


Unfortunately, those commands cannot be used in my Dockerfile, which
looks like this:


FROM archlinux:base-20261025.0.616225
RUN pacman --noconfirm -Sy go
ADD https://github.com/jech/galene/archive/refs/tags/galene-1.2.1.tar.gz /src/
RUN cd /src; tar --strip-components=1 -xf galene-*.tar.gz; rm galene-*.tar.gz
RUN cd /src; CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath -ldflags='-s -w'; mv
galene /usr/bin/
RUN cd /src/galenectl; CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath -ldflags='-s
-w'; mv galenectl /usr/bin/
RUN mkdir /srv/galene; mv /src/static /srv/galene/
WORKDIR /srv/galene
CMD ["/usr/bin/galene", ...]


So instead I bake in the resulting JSON file obtained after running
the commands above and shutting down galene:


{
  "public": true,
  "wildcard-user": {
    "password": {
      "type": "wildcard"
    },
    "permissions": "present"
  }
}


I think what is missing in the installation guide is the reference
documentation for the JSON files. Then there would be no need for
galenectl.


Regards,
Francis