MySQL database credentials do not appear in Web terminal

[zylstra]

Per <ins>this page</ins> I ran env | grep CLOUDRON_MYSQL in the Web terminal. The result was nothing, just the return of the command line.

[robi]

@zylstra from which app?

did you check the files there?

[girish]

Those credentials will only appear for an app that actually uses MySQL. For example, if it uses Postgres, it will have some other Postgres related environment variables.

Note that access credentials are per app. Only the app can access the specific database. One app cannot access another app's database.

[msbt]

@girish said in MySQL database credentials do not appear in Web terminal:

Note that access credentials are per app. Only the app can access the specific database. One app cannot access another app's database.

that's not quite correct, if you know the MYSQL username and password, you can use any app with MYSQL to access that database

[girish]

@msbt Right. We considered network blocking/fire walling the databases per app, but people wanted to use another app's database across apps sometimes.

But also, this is the same as saying (for any service) "One use cannot access another user's email/account". If I know their username/password, I can access it, of course

[msbt]

@girish haha true, just wanted to throw that in there