[chef] Handling Passwords with Chef Solo

[Stuart Ellis < >]

> From: Stuart Ellis 
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> Date: 5 June 2010 10:13:00 GMT+01:00
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> Subject: [chef] Handling Passwords with Chef Solo 
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> Hello,
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> I've just started to use Chef Solo and have been really pleased with it, 
> but am curious as to how people are currently managing passwords with it. 
> This hasn't been an issue for most things, but I've now built up a fairly 
> complete cookbook for a Rails server, and can see that I need to manage the 
> MySQL root password and the password for a system account in order to fully 
> automate the setup.


I'm sorry - I ought to have said "handling passwords securely". The 
facilities for setting system account and MySQL root passwords work fine, but 
I've so far used them by embedded these passwords into the JSON and test 
cookbook, which feels like the wrong approach.

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Stuart Ellis