How to obtain a secret when using docker?

[lesha-co]

I'm reading a readme now and it says:

$ mtg generate-secret --hex google.com
ee473ce5d4958eb5f968c87680a23854a0676f6f676c652e636f6d

this implies that I need to attach a shell to container and run mtg from there right?

I run docker run -d --name mtg mtg, it starts, spits configuration in logs and after some time, silently terminates:

{
  "level": "debug",
  "configuration": {
    // whatever 
  },
  "logger": "",
  "timestamp": 1646386068599,
  "message": "configuration"
}

How am I supposed to run mtg generate-secret?

I tried running docker attach mtg, it just hangs and doesn't do anything

[themegabyte]

Hey @lesha-co,

Have you tried docker exec -it <container_PID> /mtg generate-secret -hex google.com?

You can get the PID of a running container with: docker ps.

Let me know if it helped.

[jmluang]

if you just want to generate a secret, try this

docker run --rm nineseconds/mtg generate-secret --hex google.com

[9seconds]

this implies that I need to attach a shell to container and run mtg from there right?

Not really. You can download a binary and generate this secret or you can check other instructions available everywhere. These secrets are not something unique for mtg. You can use, for example, seriyps.ru/mtpgen.html to generate one.

Or you can use mentioned instructions, yes. Thanks, @themegabyte and @jmluang