Credentials should *not* be stored in plaintext, much less synced into GitHub as a public gist

[ELLIOTTCABLE]

At the moment, this (and several other drivers) store creds in plaintext — and worse, when Settings Sync is enabled, they can get sync'd to a public GitHub gist.

(See: mtxr/vscode-sqltools#210, mtxr/vscode-sqltools#479, mtxr/vscode-sqltools#927 …)

There's a new-ish API upstream that you can use for this, to properly behave as an AuthenticationProvider; see mtxr/vscode-sqltools#1066 for an example implementation.

This is pretty critical for us, ugh; but please don't take that too aggressively — I recognize this is a best-effort FOSS project. Take care of yourself. 💜

[ultram4rine]

Hi @ELLIOTTCABLE, I hope this will be fixed in #515.

Btw, vscode has built-in settings-sync feature, so you doesn't need to use extension that pushes them to Gist.

Btw2, my gist was private: