Sensitive data in environment variables

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Hi, in my team we are starting using postman to share collections of api.
The Team workspace works well but we have an issue: in our environment variables there are user and password to login into environment, and these are “per user”.
What happens right now is that the value of these variables is shared inside the team.
Ho can we share environments but keeping some variables private?

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Hi @stefano-introini, Welcome to the community!

You may have actual values stored as current values that will be specific to user and will not be shared across.

Have the initial values as dummy values in environment variables. In this case users have to update only current value and use it in their requests.

Hope this helps :relaxed:

https://learning.postman.com/docs/sending-requests/managing-environments/#:~:text=The%20Initial%20Value%20is%20synced,you%20choose%20to%20persist%20it.

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