How to safely use username and password in endpoint.yml

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I’m trying to setup authentication for the database we use for the tracker store, but have run into a snag. Looking at rasa interactive --endpoints, it seems that while it supports database authentication:

tracker_store:
   type: mongodb
   url: "localhost"  # (optional) host of the sql db, e.g. "localhost"
   db: "chatbot"  # path to your db
   username: "user1"  # username used for authentication
   password: "password1"  # password used for authentication

it appears that the username and password are in plaintext in the yml. Is there anyway for me to setup the yml file or setup the --endpoints option to allow me to pass in the username and password as arguments? If there is, that would allow me to safely use the yml with database authentication.

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Hi Steven,

you can use environment variables in there like this ${MONGODB_USERNAME}.

Good luck, Nikola

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