[rabbitmq-discuss] How to specify user/pass

[Tim Watson]

On 3 Jul 2012, at 09:23, Matthias Radestock wrote:

> On 03/07/12 09:17, Tim Watson wrote:
>> Thanks for clearing that up Matthias. The documentation for the plugin
>> should probably change, as the line "set the value of the
>> |auth_backends| configuration item for the |rabbit| application" makes
>> it sound like this is an item that be passed to the rabbit application
>> in the ordinary OTP sense.
> 
> It is. That's what the .config file does; it sets environment entries for Erlang applications. Only erlang hackers go around editing .app files. And we generally assume they know what they are doing ;)

Ah ok, well I'm glad I read the meaning of 'set the value of... rabbit application...' properly! :/