IG 2023.4

SystemAndEnvSecretStore

Manage a store of secrets from system properties and environment variables.

This secret store can manage secrets of both GenericSecret and CryptoKey types when used with dedicated formats.

A secret ID must conform to the convention described in secret-id. The reference is then transformed to match the environment variable name, as follows:

  • Periods (.) are converted to underscores.

  • Characters are transformed to uppercase.

For example, my.secret.id is transformed to MY_SECRET_ID.

The secrets provider queries the SystemAndEnvSecretStore for a named secret, identified by the name of a system property or environment variable. The SystemAndEnvSecretStore returns a secret that exactly matches the name.

The secrets provider builds the secret, checking that the secret’s constraints are met, and returns a unique secret. If the secret’s constraints are not met, the secrets provider cannot build the secret and the secret query fails.

For a description of how secrets are managed, refer to Secrets.

Usage

{
  "name": string,
  "type": "SystemAndEnvSecretStore",
  "config": {
    "format": SecretPropertyFormat reference,
    "mappings": [ object, ... ],
    "leaseExpiry": configuration expression<duration>
    }
}

Properties

format: SecretPropertyFormat reference, optional

Format in which the secret is stored. Use one of the following values, or define a format:

  • BASE64: Base64-encoded

  • PLAIN: Plain text

Default: BASE64

"mappings": array of objects, optional

One or more mappings to define a secret:

secretId: configuration expression<secret-id>, required

The ID of the secret used in your configuration.

format: SecretPropertyFormat reference, required

The format and algorithm of the secret. Use SecretKeyPropertyFormat or PemPropertyFormat.

"leaseExpiry": configuration expression<duration>, optional

The amount of time that secrets produced by this store can be cached before they must be refreshed.

If the duration is zero or unlimited, IG issues a warning, and uses the default value.

Default: 5 minutes

Log level

To facilitate debugging secrets for the SystemAndEnvSecretStore, in logback.xml add a logger defined by the fully qualified package name of the property resolver. The following line in logback.xml sets the log level to ALL:

<logger name="org.forgerock.secrets.propertyresolver" level="ALL">

Example

For an example of how to uses a SystemAndEnvSecretStore to manage a password, see the example in Authenticate with SSO through the default authentication service

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