# Secure credentials in subflow

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/secure-credentials-in-subflow/23736
**Category:** General
**Created:** [27 March 2020 13:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/secure-credentials-in-subflow/23736 "2020-03-27T13:45:30Z")
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### Author: ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [27 March 2020 13:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/secure-credentials-in-subflow/23736/1 "2020-03-27T13:45:30Z")

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I want to include an e-mail node in a subflow and allow the credentials to be configurable via subflow env vars. However I obviously don't want the password appearing as plain text in the flows file. Is there a solution to this problem?

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### Author: ![Paul-Reed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/paul-reed/32/66906_2.png) [@Paul-Reed](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Paul-Reed)
#### Post date: [27 March 2020 16:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/secure-credentials-in-subflow/23736/2 "2020-03-27T16:23:53Z")

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Could [node-red-contrib-credentials](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-credentials) help?

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### Author: ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)
#### Post date: [27 March 2020 16:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/secure-credentials-in-subflow/23736/3 "2020-03-27T16:28:24Z")

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The ability to identify a subflow property as a credential-type (and thus store its value in the credential store) is in the `dev` branch and will be in 1.1.0.

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### Author: ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [27 March 2020 21:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/secure-credentials-in-subflow/23736/4 "2020-03-27T21:15:01Z")

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> [@Paul-Reed](#):
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> Could [node-red-contrib-credentials](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-credentials) help

I don't _think_ so. I want to be able to configure the email node password in the subflow instance properties, I don't think the credentials node will help with that.

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### Author: ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [27 March 2020 21:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/secure-credentials-in-subflow/23736/5 "2020-03-27T21:17:29Z")

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> [@knolleary](#):
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> The ability ... will be in 1.1.0.

Excellent, thanks.

Any idea of some sort of vague idea when that might be released? Weeks? Months?

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### Author: ![alexk111](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/alexk111/32/16891_2.png) [@alexk111](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/alexk111)
#### Post date: [19 May 2020 07:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/secure-credentials-in-subflow/23736/6 "2020-05-19T07:23:30Z")

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Would this allow to move config-node selection from nodes to the subflow configuration?

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### Author: ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [18 July 2020 07:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/secure-credentials-in-subflow/23736/7 "2020-07-18T07:23:32Z")

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