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Further elaborate on using empty login & password
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mhucka committed Dec 19, 2018
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Downloading documents usually requires supplying a user login and password to the EPrints server. By default, this program uses the operating system's keyring/keychain functionality to get a user name and password. If the information does not exist from a previous run of `eprints2bags`, it will query the user interactively for the user name and password, and unless the `-K` argument (`/K` on Windows) is given, store them in the user's keyring/keychain so that it does not have to ask again in the future. It is also possible to supply the information directly on the command line using the `-u` and `-p` options (or `/u` and `/p` on Windows), but this is discouraged because it is insecure on multiuser computer systems.

If a given EPrints server does not require a user name and password, do not use `-u` or `-p` and leave the name and password blank when prompted for them by `eprints2bags`. Empty user name and password are allowed values.

To reset the user name and password (e.g., if a mistake was made the last time and the wrong credentials were stored in the keyring/keychain system), add the `-R` (or `/R` on Windows) command-line argument to a command. When `eprints2bags` is run with this option, it will query for the user name and password again even if an entry already exists in the keyring or keychain.


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