Did my message go through? I have never tried to send an email to the list before, only silently monitored.
Does anyone have any ideas? I would be happy to create an issue and code up the fix myself, but I just wanted to ping here first to make sure I wasn’t missing anything and try to get a consensus on how to handle this. Thanks, Mike > On Sep 18, 2017, at 8:03 PM, Michael Crawford > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
