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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage server side credentials? by mathrawka on Sunday November 25, 2012 @07:30PM (#4829798)
Storing in environment variables is a good practice.

Take a look at this: http://www.12factor.net/config

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage server side credentials? by jawnb on Sunday November 25, 2012 @09:13PM (#4830074)
One thing to be aware of when storing sensitive information in environment variables, is that it is possible to view the environment variables a process is using.
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