netrc action

This GitHub Action will append an entry to the ~/.netrc file for you. File owner and access permission checks are done before writing to the file.

Usage

Inputs

Name	Required	Description	Type	Default
machine	yes	Identifies a remote machine name	string
username	no	The user name for the remote machine	string	''
password	no	The password for the remote machine	string	''

Basic example

Add the following to your workflow.

- uses: extractions/netrc@v1
  with:
    machine: some.private.domain.com
    username: ${{ secrets.USERNAME }}
    password: ${{ secrets.PASSWORD }}

Example use case

In the below example we have a Python project that needs to install packages from a private PyPI registry. We want to be able to check-in a requirements.txt that contains an extra index URL but we don't want to check-in the credentials

requirements.txt:

--extra-index-url https://pypi.private.domain.com

requests==2.23.0
private-package==2.8.3

.github/workflows/build.yaml:

on: [push]

name: build

jobs:
  check:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - uses: extractions/netrc@v1
        with:
          machine: pypi.private.domain.com
          username: ${{ secrets.PYPI_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.PYPI_PASSWORD }}

      - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
        with:
          python-version: 3.8

      - run: pip install -r requirements.txt

      # tests follow...

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.