I have a mqtt node and in the mqtt node, I have all the credentials e.g. password, username etc and I am taking the password and username from the environment variables like this $(Password). Now when i export the flow and paste it to another node-red, my username and password field is always empt…

Look in ~/.node-red/.config.json for the _credentialSecret value. That is the auto-generated value that is used if you don't provide your own in your settings file. Copy its value over to your settings file under credentialSecrets key.

How to copy credentials in node-red flow?

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hsn548 19 March 2020 13:47 8

my credentialSecret is commented.. is there any default secret too?

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