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SECRET_KEY_BASE listed in error message #5271

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openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 2 comments
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SECRET_KEY_BASE listed in error message #5271

openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 2 comments

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Reporter: aseerel4c26
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 7.56pm, Tuesday, 20th January 2015]

a variable SECRET_KEY_BASE is listed in the section "Environment variables" of a ...

"Web application could not be started
No server available (Dalli::RingError)"

... error message of the osm website which I just saw (not any more). Value is something like eJ+wiOKsadkdsasAasd+fsfjKLalwe+sd...

https://github.com/rails-api/rails-api/blob/dd6b71bd6e6e241529f541dc92b2076e9d238b28/lib/rails-api/templates/rails/app/config/initializers/secret_token.rb.tt says "Make sure your secret_key_base is kept private if you're sharing your code publicly."

While I do not know if this is raelly a problem for OSM, I rather mention it ... It looks not that nice to expose a variable which is named "secret" to users.

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Author: pnorman
[Added to the original trac issue at 1.50am, Monday, 2nd February 2015]

Not a security issue - we don't use it. See openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#432 for more information

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Author: aseerel4c26
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.02am, Monday, 2nd February 2015]

Okay, fine, thank you! :-)

Would it be (easily) possible to set this variable to 000000_not_used_000000 then? That way it would not look that suspicious (to other people seeing such errors in the future).

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