I'm writing up a recipe for colleagues to follow. One of the things that our environment needs is for the users to create their own passwords ... we can't allow non-password protected environments. To achieve this, we need to edit settings.js. However, we appear to have a bootstrap puzzle. When a user installs node-RED using npm install node-red, the settings.js file isn't created before first run and we want to avoid even a first run just to create a settings.js file. Is there a recipe to create a settings.js (or otherwise set a password) before initially starting node-RED?
On first run the default one from the project gets copied into the users directory (typically ~/.node-red ) .
You can always do this manually first or send them one preset to use, as we check before copying and leave it if it already exists.
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Thank you sir. Very kind ... you made my evening. I wear a new hat now but never lost my admiration for Node-RED. I'm trying to push it and provide some custom nodes with my new employer.
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