Everything the console has no field for is still real — MAIL_*, DB_*,
APP_KEY, whichever key nobody has built a form for yet — and without a way to
touch it from here, the operator needs a shell and the console page misses
its own point. EnvFileEditor is the net, not just the warning:
1. Validates before writing. A line that is neither blank, nor a comment, nor
KEY=value is rejected outright, and an empty file (syntactically "valid" by
that rule, but not survivable) is refused too. write() never touches the
file before checking the new content.
2. Backs up before every write that actually happens — a timestamped copy
beside .env, before the new content lands. Never pruned automatically; the
page says so, next to where it says where they land.
3. Names the keys a mistake here can lock an operator out with — APP_KEY,
DB_*, REDIS_*, SESSION_* — rather than a blanket warning nobody reads.
4. Gated by secrets.manage and the same confirmed password the vault entries
use — this is the one place on the page that can reach every credential
the vault otherwise keeps write-only.
5. Says plainly what saving does not do: queue, queue-provisioning, scheduler
and reverb only read .env at their own startup, and names the restart
command plus config:clear.
6. Marks which .env keys SecretVault currently overrides, so editing a line
that a stored vault value already shadows does not look broken.
Two issues surfaced by Codex review and fixed before this commit: the raw
file content stayed in the Livewire component snapshot after the password
confirmation window expired on its own (not only on an explicit re-lock), and
the first save on an installation with no .env yet failed trying to back up a
file that was never there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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