-[[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
'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.