From e2d474ddd23c94f093a9b3c84ffded2892759352 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jake McDermott Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 10:28:24 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] document restriction of external-external credential source linking --- docs/credential_plugins.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/credential_plugins.md b/docs/credential_plugins.md index 851eebdff3..d00e66bdb2 100644 --- a/docs/credential_plugins.md +++ b/docs/credential_plugins.md @@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ the Machine Credential. Note that you can perform these lookups on *any* credential field - not just the `password` field for Machine credentials. You could just as easily create an AWS credential and use lookups to retrieve the Access Key and Secret Key -from an external secret management system. +from an external secret management system. Also note that external credential +sources cannot ever be used to look up secrets for other external credential +sources. Writing Custom Credential Plugins ---------------------------------