Some reasons: - https://diogomonica.com/2017/03/27/why-you-shouldnt-use-env-variables-for-secret-data/ https://diogomonica.com/2017/03/27/why-you-shouldnt-use-

Some reasons: - https://diogomonica.com/2017/03/27/why-you-shouldnt-use-env-variables-for-secret-data/ https://diogomonica.com/2017/03/27/why-you-shouldnt-use-env-... - https://blog.forcesunseen.com/stop-storing-secrets-in-environment-variables https://blog.forcesunseen.com/stop-storing-secrets-in-enviro... They both recommend mounting them into a tmpfs, and then unmounting, but I've not yet tried this.