Motivation

Having dozens of accounts and their relations require convenient management to keep them updated. Updating is manual ,therefore, the utility is auxiliary.

The article demonstrating a real usage.

Basic concept

Accounts are toml files that contain sensitive data where every file can refer to any other type of one by reference keyword.

Features

1. Checking file existence and out of scope cases.
2. Visualizing the references graph and errors.

Demonstration

Demo account files and with references and an error.

$ tree secrets
secrets
├── acc-bank.toml
├── acc-mail.toml
└── cert.pem

acc-bank.toml

login = "login"
password = "pass"
references = ["acc-mail.toml", "nonexistent.txt"]

acc-mail.toml

user = "user"
reference = "cert.pem"

Run checking and creating a plot.

$ python3 references.py create-plot --layout "kamada kawai" --relations --emphasize --names --dpi 400 --output-file demo.png accounts-folder

TO DO

• Add per node subplots image colored in chess board way