Hi, There are quite a few different nodes available to conect Note-red to different systems like SQL, Samba, MQTT etc. Most of them need a password to work of course. But, how safe is this passwords actually stored. Are they encrypted in some way? If I run Node Red on a Raspberry PI, would someone …

To expand on that, assuming that the node is correctly written, credentials are kept in a separate file to your flows. That file is encrypted using a key in your settings.js that you should certainly change. So if you export a flow from the Editor, the credentials are not exported - as you would ex…

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zenofmud 22 June 2020 18:46 2

No, the password is encrypted and not visable.

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