Set user avatar with CLI or API

[lonix1]

Feature Description

We use automation (ansible) to setup multiple servers, each has gitea and our ci/cd stuff. We create the same users each time for our team members.

One can create a user with the CLI: username, password, email, is_admin.

But it's not possible to specify the avatar. It would be nice to do that with the CLI (or some other method, maybe just put the images in a certain directory using a certain filename?).

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[lonix1]

On second thought, I think this could be too complex with the cli.

Maybe instead just copy the image into the avatars directory and let gitea find it - is that possible? I guess the The filename must be hashed somehow so gitea knows about it?

If out of scope, please close this issue.

[silverwind]

I guess it could be added, but 5 arguments on a CLI is already pushing the complexity. It may already be possible via API to set the avatar, and your use case does sound like it may be better done with an API client.

[lonix1]

I didn't know there was an API... Thanks for letting me know!

I will tinker with this and report back my solution.

[lonix1]

UPDATE:

I checked on https://try.gitea.io/api/swagger, but unfortunately there is no endpoint for avatars. 😞

[silverwind]

Yeah, it seems we are lacking both a POST /user and a PATCH /user.

[JakobDev]

I will start working on this