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One does not commit or compile credentials

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This meme was brought to you by the PyPI Director of Infrastructure who accidentally hardcoded credentials - which could have resulted in compromissing the entire core Python ecosystem.

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[-] marcos@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

Here's the thing, config.json should have been on the project's .gitignore.

Not exactly because of credentials. But, how do you change it to test with different settings?

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 months ago

For a lot of my projects, there is a config-.json that is selected at startup based the environment.

Nothing secure in those, however.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

But, how do you change it to test with different settings?

When it's really messy, we:

  • check in a template file,
  • securely share a .env file (and .gitignore it)
  • and check in one line script that inflates the real config file (which we also .gitignore).
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