Fly secrets available to all users or just root?

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I’m having an issue with environment variables setup using secrets.

I’m deploying a Ghost blog image on user “node” as per the Dockerfile instructions, using secrets for environment variables, which is working fine since Dockerfile seems to run on user “root”.

However, I still need these environment variables to be available for user “node”, since that’s the user I run ghost on in runtime.

The problem is when I login to the node user via su - node and then try to echo $DATABASE_URL for example or any of the other environment variables, none seems to be available.

Has anyone else experienced this?

How do I make secrets environment variables available to other users?

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Try su node (i.e., without the minus). See su(1) - Linux manual page for more details.

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Wow that actually works, and I feel like a total Linux newbie! :sweat_smile: Thanks!

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