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Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoFirmly agree, I don’t believe he should have had access to change these password in the first place unless I’m misunderstanding their definition of test engineer, but if OP had the authority and permission to change the password in the first place, and that person deliberately changed it back to the insecure route again, there would some sort of reprimandment involved
yoshman@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It was an admin account to do regression testing for the admin interface and functions before prod releases.
I had my guys enable/disable the account during the testing pipeline so people can’t login anymore.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Why would you have regression on prod? Or why would you care what the password is on staging environments?
We have our lower environments (where all testing happens) on a VPN completely separated from prod, and testing engineers only ever touch those lower environments. Our Ops team manages all admin prod accounts, and those are completely separate from lower environment accounts.
So I guess I’m struggling to understand the issue here. Surely you could keep a crappy password for pre-prod testing? We even create a copy of prod as needed and change the admin accounts if there’s something prod-specific.
yoshman@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The production database gets down-synced to the lower environments on demand, so they can test on actual production datasets. That would require us to manually remake this user account every time a dev down-syncs the database to a lower environment.
The customer is paranoid, as the project is their public facing website, so they want testing against the actual prod environment.
We don’t mange the SSO, as that is controlled by the customer. The only local (application specific) account is this account for testing.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
That sounds fine? Just add it to the script when down-syncing. Or keep auth details in a separate DB and only sync that as needed (that’s what we do).
That’s the main problem then, not this testing engineer. We do test directly on prod, but it’s not our QA engineers doing the testing, but our support staff and product owners (i.e. people who already have prod access). They verify that the new functionality works as expected and do a quick smoke test to make sure critical flows aren’t totally busted. This covers the “paranoid customer” issue while also keeping engineers away from prod.
Maybe you’re doing something like that now, idk, but I highly recommend that flow.