Re: Storing database credentials outside an org file

["Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.online>]

Aloha Mike,

Mike Gauland <mikelygee@gmail.com> writes:

> On 1/11/21 4:33 pm, Tim Cross wrote:
>> Mike Gauland <mikelygee@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I often use an org file to record database queries, using sql 
>>> source blocks.
>>> I've been putting the database credentials in the file using 
>>> header-args:sql
>>> properties, but I'd prefer to have the credentials saved in a 
>>> separate file for
>>> security reasons.
>>>
>>> Any ideas on how I could make this work?
>> It probably wouldn't be too hard to use the authinfo.gpg 
>> facility via
>> the auth-source library which is included in Emacs. In fact, I 
>> think
>> sql-mode might already have support for this built in.
>>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't see it on worg, but in 
> ob-sql.el I found
> support for ":dbconnection". I can set up an entry in 
> sql-connection-alist, and
> give the name of the entry to the sql block via :dbconnection. 
> Now, my password
> is safely out of the .org file. As a bonus, it is easier to 
> maintain across
> different org files.

The Worg entry should be fixed now.  Thanks for the report.

All the best,
Tom
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