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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Isn't it weird that we put credentials in the environment? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by sebastiancarlos@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Almost every program that we run has access to the environment, so nothing stops them from curling our credentials to some nefarious server.

Why don't we put credentials in files and then pass them to the programs that need them? Maybe coupled with some mechanism that prevents executables from reading any random file except those approved.

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[–] blkpws@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

Environment variables can be set individually for each app, no need to set them globally. If you put credentials on files, that file can be read by any program also if you don't isolate it, as you should do with environment variables too.