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Hi,

As said, the employer field isn't always properly updated (eg. when you import individuals and set the Current employer).

I wrote a quick and dirty php cron, that find them (rule: employer_id is null and there is a relationship of type employee of without an end date)

Question before I share it:

I don't want to run this cron from a webserver (eg. no wget http://?passwordinclear=xxx...), but from a php-cli, so I don't have memory or timeout problems

So far, I hacked civicrm.config.php (and passed the path to sivicrm.seetings.php), but I was wondering if they where a framework to do that properly ?

More specifically, what I'm looking for is to run :

php-cli bin/UpdateEmployer --site example.com --user admin

I've seen the Console pear that you use, so it takes care of the params.

What I'd like is :
1) Avoid to hack the civicrm.setting.php
2) a CRM_Utils_System::authenticateScript that doesn't need a password, but I can list on civicrm.config.php what linux user/drupal user can run scripts from the cli without having to put a password

Rationale:
a) I don't like having passwords hanging around in cleartext like that if I can avoid it
b) if I get access to the cli, that's really likely that I can read civicrm.config.php, so I can access the db, the password doesn't add any security


What do you think ? (btw, I'd love to have the same for the civimail crons so I can use the php-cli for them too)

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