[DELTASPIKE-382] mask out passwords and other credentials in our Configuration logs

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.4
• Fix Version/s: 0.5
• Component/s: Configuration
• Assignee: Mark Struberg
• Reporter: Mark Struberg
• Created: 13/Jun/13 14:30
• Updated: 20/Mar/14 07:44
• Resolved: 03/Jul/13 05:13

Description

Our configuration mechanism currently logs all the configured values.
This makes it hard to use it for passwords and stuff.

I suggest we introduce some specific prefix property to configure configs which contain sensitive information.

For the key 'some.random.password' this could look like:

deltaspike_config.mask.some.random.password=true

In the log we would in this case just output the information whether and where we did find some value, but not print the details for all configs which start with all of the configured masks.

I'm not yet sure though how to configure this best. Suggestions appreciated!