credentialSecret not applied when using projects

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Got a Node Red running in docker with projects enabled. Originally I had credentialSecret: false in settings.js. But now I changed to a secret string (ie. credentialSecret: "a-secret-string).

How to enable this? I thought it would be a matter of deleting the old flows_creds.json, start up NR, perhaps add a node to save some dummy credentials, click deploy and then it would update and encrypt flows_cred.json. After a restart, the logs would no longer show [warn] Using unencrypted credentials. But for the life of me, this won't take effect!

I have verified the settings.js file is being used (added console.log). It prints all the normal values:

2025-01-06 11:25:54 Welcome to Node-RED
2025-01-06 11:25:54 ===================
2025-01-06 11:25:54
2025-01-06 11:25:54 6 Jan 10:25:54 - [info] Node-RED version: v4.0.8
2025-01-06 11:25:54 6 Jan 10:25:54 - [info] Node.js version: v20.18.1
2025-01-06 11:25:54 6 Jan 10:25:54 - [info] Linux 5.15.146.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x64 LE
2025-01-06 11:25:54 6 Jan 10:25:54 - [info] Loading palette nodes
2025-01-06 11:26:51 6 Jan 10:26:51 - [info] Dashboard version 3.6.5 started at /ui
2025-01-06 11:26:51 6 Jan 10:26:51 - [info] Settings file : /data/settings.js
2025-01-06 11:26:51 6 Jan 10:26:51 - [info] Context store : 'default' [module=memory]
2025-01-06 11:26:51 6 Jan 10:26:51 - [info] User directory : /data
2025-01-06 11:26:51 6 Jan 10:26:51 - [info] Projects directory: /data/projects
2025-01-06 11:26:51 6 Jan 10:26:51 - [info] Server now running at http://127.0.0.1:1880/
2025-01-06 11:26:53 6 Jan 10:26:53 - [info] Active project : default-nr-project
2025-01-06 11:26:53 6 Jan 10:26:53 - [info] Flows file : /data/projects/default-nr-project/flows.json
2025-01-06 11:26:53 6 Jan 10:26:53 - [warn] Using unencrypted credentials
2025-01-06 11:26:53 6 Jan 10:26:53 - [info] Stopped flows

Any help or suggestions from this excellent community?

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If you are using Projects, then the credentialSecret is managed on a per-project basis (as each project may have its own credentialSecret).

To update the credentialSecret settings for a project, open the Project Settings dialog from the menu in the editor (Menu -> Projects -> Project Settings). Then open the Settings tab.

In the Files section at the top, click the 'edit' button. Then you can update the encryption settings for the project.

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Oh thanks, this goes into .config.projects.json so can set it there!