Driving me bonkers! "Using unencrypted credentials"

[TotallyInformation]

Do we have to have this pasted to the debug panel every single time node-red is restarted?!

I'm working in a dev environment and I don't want to be annoyed by this each time. Could we please have a way to supress it? I don't want to encrypt my project creds in dev.

Pretty please!

[dceejay]

you mean you read the log every time you start Node-RED ?
I use nodemon and let it auto restart things for me when I resave files, so I don't need to watch that window unless there is a problem.

[tve]

How do you know when to hit the refresh button on the browser to reload the flow editor?

[dceejay]

Feel the Rhythm

[TotallyInformation]

@dceejay

you mean you read the log every time you start Node-RED

Only when I've screwed something up!

I wouldn't mind it only going into the log - but it doesn't - it appears in the editor's debug panel which constantly distracts from other things.

@tve

How do you know when to hit the refresh button on the browser to reload the flow editor?

??? Different issue. You reload the editor when you've changed the html file - the exact timing is something you get a feel for and depends on your setup, machine and how complex your nodes and flows are.

[jbudd]

@TotallyInformation

Do we have to have this pasted to the debug panel every single time node-red is restarted?!

It doesn't show up for me! I only have an MQTT config in the file, but it's unencrypted:

{
    "4a46acfce798c2ed": {},
    "3a867ff696d4dc42": {},
    "b6d941184835f665": {
        "user": "admin",
        "password": "nevergiveawayyourpassword"
    }
}

[TotallyInformation]

It comes from the project settings I believe:

[TotallyInformation]

:sigh: even trying to set it is a problem:

Honestly, I only have projects turned on because I want to test them with uibuilder.

Log:

0|Node-RED  | 2 Jan 21:19:43 - [error] Error

Editor console log:

Call stack:

[kevinGodell]

@TotallyInformation

Log:

0|Node-RED  | 2 Jan 21:19:43 - [error] Error

I have been using projects and also noticed this error when changing the key .

To duplicate what you have done, I changed my test project to start using a key and saved it. Viewing the file .config.projects.json file, I can see that the projects key changed from false to my selected key hello. The generic error was emitted at this point.

before:

after:

Viewing the projects creds file at /test-project/flow_cred.json, I could see that it was not yet encrypted. Hitting the deploy button restart flows caused a warning to be shown in the debug panel Encrypted credentials not found, which makes sense because now it is trying to use the new encryption key to decrypt the non-encrypted file.

Changing a credential setting in one of my nodes and then re-deploying triggered the flow_cred.json file to now become encrypted and then the errors and warning never re-appeared. Changing just a non-credential setting and reploying had no effect on the creds file.

before:

after: