问题
Am I crazy, or is it a bad idea to keep my SMTP username and password for ActionMailer in the actual (development/production) config file? It seems like I should store it an encrypted place, or at the very minimum, exclude it from my Mercurial pushes.
Right now, I'm just removing the password from my source file before performing a push, but there's got to be a smarter way than the one I'm using. :)
Perhaps I should store it in my database as another user (which is already stored with encrypted passwords) and fetch it programatically?
回答1:
Use an application configuration file that is not stored in your repository for storing sensitive information. Here is how I've done it:
Add an
app_config.yml
in yourconfig
directory. Its contents would look like this:smtp_password: kl240jvfslkr32rKgjlk some_other_password: 34hg9r0j0g402jg and_so_on: lkn$@gJkjgsFLK4gaj
Add a
preinitializer.rb
in yourconfig
directory with the following contents:require 'yaml' APP_CONFIG = YAML.load(File.read(RAILS_ROOT + "/config/app_config.yml"))
Substitute your passwords for values in the
APP_CONFIG
variable, like so:smtp_password = kl240jvfslkr32rKgjlk # old version smtp_password = APP_CONFIG['smtp_password'] # new version
Make sure you don't include app_config.yml
in your repository, though you may want to create an example file that is checked in, just to show a sample of what should be in it. When you deploy your application, make sure that app_config.yml
is stored on the server. If you're using a standard Capistrano deployment, put the file in the shared folder and update your deployment task to create a symlink to it in the current release's directory.
回答2:
Jimmy's answer is perfect (+1), I would also note that Github has recommended .gitignore files for every language and the Rails one is here Note that it includes config/*.yml so that no config/yml file is in the respository to begin with. Probably a good move.
Use Capistrano to ask for these things upon deploy:setup the same way you should be doing for your database stuff:
task :my_silly_task do
sendgrid_password = Capistrano::CLI.password_prompt("Sendgrid password: ")
require 'yaml'
spec = {... whatever yaml you need -- probably what Jimmy said...}
run "mkdir -p #{shared_path}/config"
put(spec.to_yaml, "#{shared_path}/config/mailer_config.yml")
end
来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2368139/actionmailer-password-security