How can I use it on multiple machines (with same "personality")? - OR: where are "my" list of shares stored?

[tschloss]

Hi, just discoverd this great tool!

What I did not understand ist how the tui knows all of my shares. Do I identify myself against the service or is the list of shares stored locally?

Background: I want to use it on multiple machines with one "repository".

Thank you
Thomas

[tschloss]

Oh I forgot that ssh sends my identity automatically. So with ssh -i identity snips.sh I can change my identity.

[robherley]

👋 Thanks for the kind words @tschloss

And you are correct, users are identified by using the fingerprint of the SSH public key.

Internally they are stored as following:

snips.sh/internal/db/schema.hcl

Lines 23 to 53 in 8e52e02

	table "public_keys" {
	schema = schema.main
	column "id" {
	type = text
	}
	column "created_at" {
	type = datetime
	}
	column "updated_at" {
	type = datetime
	}
	column "fingerprint" {
	type = text
	}
	column "type" {
	type = text
	}
	column "user_id" {
	type = text
	}
	primary_key {
	columns = [column.id]
	}
	index "idx_public_keys_created_at" {
	columns = [column.created_at]
	}
	index "idx_pubkey_fingerprint" {
	unique = true
	columns = [column.fingerprint]
	}
	}

If a new user connects (new public key not stored in database) they will automatically have a new user id assigned.

A similar discussion (and feature request) to map multiple keys to a single user is here:

• Associating multiple SSH keys to single SSH keys #164

Having a single identity for snips totally works 👍