Comment Comment by jbotz Environment variables are not a good way to pass secrets around. For a list of reasons see this 2017 blog post: https://blog.diogomonica.com//2017/03/27/why-you-shouldnt-us...The TLDR is, first environment variables are visible to every process running as the same user on the system (try 'ps eww') and second they leak very easily in debug logs, etc. parent jbotz 3 years ago
The TLDR is, first environment variables are visible to every process running as the same user on the system (try 'ps eww') and second they leak very easily in debug logs, etc.