Comment on Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository
Nobilmantis@feddit.it 2 days agoI mean it is called “.env_example” afterall… Probably a env file to use for testing, no?
Comment on Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository
Nobilmantis@feddit.it 2 days agoI mean it is called “.env_example” afterall… Probably a env file to use for testing, no?
forgeddit@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
I’m really shocked by the confidence people have here with clearly zero knowledge.
“.env_example” is literally just the example/template which is only updated if new “config” items are needed and it doesn’t contain actual secrets.
Developers copy “.env”/prod and “.env_local” files, which are used for the specific environments. These are in .gitignore so that they’re not accidentally pushed to .git.
For production the “.env” is generated during deployment from secrets in a locked up environment. (I mean they COULD fuck this up, but there’s no evidence of this AFAIK)
The example postgres password is simply a “hello world” type password that is often used when running a local docker image of the DB so you can get a full dev environment running in a couple minutes, as mentioned in the readme.md: github.com/gsa-tts-archived/ai-gov-api
It’s not even a testing environment, it’s a temporary local/dev DB just so you can test your code.
I am NOT defending this project, but holy shit this thread is full of misinformation and I had to correct this.