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Worker: remove secret from env #773

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josephjclark opened this issue Sep 18, 2024 · 2 comments
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Worker: remove secret from env #773

josephjclark opened this issue Sep 18, 2024 · 2 comments
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The worker start script, once the server has started, should delete WORKER_SECRET from the env.

This ensures that once the worker instance has the secret in memory, any attacker on the server can no longer access it.

This also means that the server can't be restarted without the container being destroyed (which is probably good)

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Obviously you can't just do process.env, you have to properly unset it

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@taylordowns2000 @stuartc Ok, unfortunately it turns out this won't work.

A child process cannot affect the environment of its parent. So within the node runtime (or even with pnpm) there's no way to clear an environment variable from the system.

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