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Twitter keys ENV variables

See original GitHub issue

The ones that are currently in use look terribly generic and I can see them causing issues in the future. Would it make sense to make them scoped like all the configuration ones?

Eg.

CONSUMER_KEY='...'
CONSUMER_SECRET='...'
ACCESS_TOKEN='...'
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET='...'

would be

TTC_CONSUMER_KEY='...'
TTC_CONSUMER_SECRET='...'
TTC_ACCESS_TOKEN='...'
TTC_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET='...'

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:11 (3 by maintainers)

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gasparchcommented, Apr 18, 2017

I did not managed to test it on FreeBSD, recent Ubuntu/CentOS seems not have this problem anymore.

Anyway, env variables are terrible - they leak everywhere - cronjobs, child shellscripts, etc. Also you cannot change them without restarting process. but anyway, this is out of scope of this ticket.

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robophilcommented, Apr 20, 2017

Thanks @notwaldorf I’ll check it out

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