Retieve secret from command line

[sfera]

i have a btsync instance running on a linux server to which i have only ssh access. the port of the web ui is not accessible from my current location.

is there any way to retrieve the secret of a shared dir of this running instance using the command line?

[GreatMarko]

is there any way to retrieve the secret of a shared dir of this running instance using the command line?

The secrets can be found in your sync.conf config file

[sfera]

no, they can't be found in the conf as they were originally added using the web ui at a time i had physical access to the server. the config file doesn't seem to be updated when adding shares using the web ui.

i tried accessing the web ui using a command line web browser (lynx) but had no success as the browser failed to display the web interface correctly.

a cli interface for running instances would be very useful imho

[sfera]

you actually solved my problem in another post: http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/20654-recover-keys/

thanks a lot!

[rdebath]

In case someone else searches for this you could setup a tunnel with your ssh connection. Get ssh to tunnel your localhost port 8888 to port 8888 on the remote machine.

$ ssh -L 8888:127.0.0.1:8888 remoteserver 

then in another xterm

$ firefox http://localhost:8888