I know that pushing a commit with an API key is something for which a developer should have his balls cut off, but…
…I’m wondering what I should do if, somehow, I accidentally commit an API key or other sensitive information, an environment variable to the repo.
Should I just revoke the access and leave it as is, or maybe locally remove this commit and force-push a new one without the key? How do you guys handle this situation in a professional environment?
I kind of think this is a bad idea because environment variables can be read from anywhere and aren’t designed to be secret.
But I’m not sure what a better solution is tbh.
Storing them in files with correct permissions.
also storing them outside of the webserver directory
you’re not entirely wrong, but this is the current standard/accepted advice for local development - probably what we’re talking about given this thread is about git commits - because the chance of exploit via this mechanism requires local access… with such access, you’re pretty screwed in far more ways