# Node-red configurations, connections

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-configurations-connections/7394>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [30 January 2019 12:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-configurations-connections/7394 "2019-01-30T12:44:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![akhilendharreddy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/akhilendharreddy/32/6953_2.png) [@akhilendharreddy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/akhilendharreddy)\
**Post date:** [30 January 2019 12:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-configurations-connections/7394/1 "2019-01-30T12:44:56Z")

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hi i have lot of flows in my project which are dealing with different db connections, in my local passwords are different and for production passwords are different, can i use config.json file and read all connection credentials from this json  
@knolleary can you help me on this