From 7197b1796838c7271cebb74b59b9affede9c9649 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lubos Mjachky <lmjachky@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 20:25:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update the default value of SECRET_KEY to enable deployment
 checks

closes #5529
---
 CHANGES/5529.bugfix      | 1 +
 pulpcore/app/settings.py | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 CHANGES/5529.bugfix

diff --git a/CHANGES/5529.bugfix b/CHANGES/5529.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f4321210fb7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGES/5529.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Added a note about the default value of the `SECRET_KEY` setting.
diff --git a/pulpcore/app/settings.py b/pulpcore/app/settings.py
index 6ba98056e4b..f1f3c677b60 100644
--- a/pulpcore/app/settings.py
+++ b/pulpcore/app/settings.py
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@
 # List of upload handler classes to be applied in order.
 FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS = ("pulpcore.app.files.HashingFileUploadHandler",)
 
-SECRET_KEY = True
+# SECURITY WARNING: this should be set to a unique, unpredictable value
+SECRET_KEY = ""
 
 # Key used to encrypt fields in the database
 DB_ENCRYPTION_KEY = "/etc/pulp/certs/database_fields.symmetric.key"