Keep a password out of a shared Postman workspace
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Your test account password is in a Postman environment that the whole team shares. What is the safe way to handle it?
- Keep only an empty placeholder in the shared value, put the real password in your local value or Postman Vault, and pass it from the CI secret store when Newman runs
- Keep it in the shared value so everyone has it
- Write it straight into the request body
- Base64-encode it first
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