redact

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redact

redact is a Go package which allows you to easily redact sensitive flag values to prevent them from being exposed as expvars or via debugging endpoints.

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Overview

Package redact provides functionality to redact potentially sensitive flags, to prevent their contents from being exposed via expvars or debugging endpoints.

Example

flag.Parse()                           // parse the args to get the values
RedactFlags(flag.CommandLine, os.Args) // redact them from the runtime

Index

• func RedactFlags(set *flag.FlagSet, args []string)

Examples

• Package

Functions

func RedactFlags

func RedactFlags(set *flag.FlagSet, args []string)

RedactFlags iterates through the given FlagSet and arguments slice, and for each non-bool flag which has the string "[SENSITIVE]" in its usage, redacts the value of the flag from the given arguments.