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Tarjei Husøy’s blag · May 17, 2016

Secrets and the cron environment

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Don’t use cron’s environment variables for storing secrets. Like I did. MAILTO = notactuallymyemail@thusoy.com PASSPHRASE = K5mzQ6VMk1NpCQEGjakbgq80H678fsxpKeErO8aV # uh-oh 0 5 * * * duplicity --verbosity warning /home s3+http://mybucket/mybackupdir It’s certainly often convenient and the quickest solution, but leads to a risk of them being compromised if you’re using email…

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