Re: Secrets in org-babel

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>]

Felix Dorner <felix.dorner@gmail.com> writes:

> New org user, fascinated by org-babel, but stumbled over something I have
> no good solution for: I have mostly shell blocks, and very often have to
> retrieve secrets from aws secretsmanager before I can do anything useful,
> e.g. query a database in several places. What I've been doing is to put the
> secret retrieval into a named block and can then inject the secret into
> other blocks with a parameter that calls that block. But then, the secret
> value is also echoed to the messages buffer, which I'd like to avoid? I'd
> also like to avoid repeating the secrets-retrieval code all over the place.
> Thanks for any tips.

:results none or :results silent will not echo the output.
Also, you may find https://www.kpassa.me/posts/literate2/ useful.
Finally, you may put your named secret block inside encrypted heading
via org-crypt (https://orgmode.org/manual/Org-Crypt.html#Org-Crypt).

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