External user sync on demand

[pboguslawski]

Feature Description

Consider adding cli to allow admin to force user sync from all external sources (or optionally from specified source if not harder to implement) independent from cron task (should work when gitea web is running and also if not - similar to auth config setup).

Maybe something like gitea admin auth do-sync

Why:

• will allow user list to be updated manually just after updating external user list, without restarting gitea nor waiting for cron task to sync,
• will allow to adjust user config (i.e. disable sending notifications to admin using SQL query) in automatic initialization scenarios (i.e. in docker); now no user accounts are present after external sync is configured - must wait for gitea to be started if RUN_AT_START is used or wait for cron task if not).

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[techknowlogick]

Thanks for this proposal, I have been thinking about this recently too and an alternative I considered was to allow system cron to call internal cron. What about something like "gitea cron xyz" where xyz would be the specific task, and then the cron job would call the binary with the options needed?

[pboguslawski]

If every gitea cron task may be executed without gitea web running, running gitea exec-task xyz may be good (and more general) alternative to running gitea admin auth do-sync. Important part is to allow operation in both offline (gitea web down) and online (gitea web up) modes.

[KN4CK3R]

Not exactly what you are asking for but you can trigger the job from the admin panel too:

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