no way to remove a custom secret

[devbeard]

This is driving me a bit nuts. As far as I can tell sbx secret rm only handles service secrets. I could not find any syntax that removes a custom secret (tried the placeholder, the env name, the host). Combined with the placeholder-keyed upsert behavior (#NNN) this means a mistyped custom secret can only be cleaned up with sbx reset, which nukes all sandboxes and templates, or by editing the keychain by hand.

The workaround I ended up with was "parking": repoint the unwanted placeholder at a junk host so it becomes inert.

sbx secret set-custom -g --host unused.invalid --env PARKED_1 --placeholder "tok_oldrow00" --value parked

Works, but hopefully not the intended UX. sbx secret rm accepting the placeholder (since that is apparently the key) would do it.

Version: sbx v0.32.0 (5558036), macOS Apple silicon

[rcjsuen]

Hi @devbeard, thanks for the report. You should be able to get rid of it by removing it with sbx secret rm -g --placeholder .... Does this work for you?

[devbeard]

Thank you ❤️ @rcjsuen. Can you please add this to sbx secret rm -h so others can spend less time than me figuring this out? Again, thank you 😃 !

[rcjsuen]

@devbeard The help text has been updated in the latest release. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention. :)