Hi,
I was wondering if anything had ever been proposed for having the aws secret
key hidden in the aws type connection.
Currently passing in these credentials is done by defining the some json in the
extra params section of the connection like
{"aws_access_key_id":"_your_aws_access_key_id_", "aws_secret_access_key":
"_your_aws_secret_access_key_”}
While this does work it leaves the secret access key in plain text for anyone
that has access to the connections.
I know there are other options about setting them as environment variables, but
this doesn’t help if we need to define more than one aws connection with
different access keys.
Two things that immediately came to mind for how to do this:
1. use login and password sections of the connection for the access and secret
keys so that the secret gets hidden and encrypted like all the other passwords.
2. have an option to encrypt the extra params
Option 1 seems most logical and should be too hard to implement.
Open to any ideas people might have on this.
Thanks,
Mike
