The metabase-profile program makes it easy to create a user profile for submitting facts and reports to a
Metabase server.
Valid options include:
--email ADDRESS user email address eg "jd@example.com"
--name FULLNAME full user name, eg "John Doe"
-o, --output FILENAME output filename
--secret PASSWORD password for authentication
-h, --help print man page
If no output file name is given, the default name 'metabase_id.json' will be used. If the output
filename (or default) exists, the program will abort rather than overwrite the file. The output file
will be in JSON and contain the user profile and the user's shared secret.
Typically, when a Metabase server first receives a report from a new user profile, the shared secret is
recorded and will be used to authenticate subsequent submissions. The output should not be shared
publicly or made group or world readable.
Use the resulting file according to the instructions of your Metabase client program. You may wish to
copy it across computers if you would like to be identified consistently when submitting reports from
different locations.