mosquitto passed the broker's admin password to mosquitto_ctrl as -P on every docker exec, and the container runtime keeps every exec's command line in its event stream, where docker_events returned it. The admin credentials now reach mosquitto_ctrl as a 0600 options file fed on stdin, client passwords at its own prompt, and an argv carrying a secret is refused before it runs. The admin secret says it is taken at start: the bootstrap re-runs when the mesh replaces it and re-keys the broker online from the value it last applied, so it can be rotated. docker_events redacts what an exec's command line carried, and docker_secrets_in_events names such secrets by name. keycloak's repair hands kcadm its passwords through KC_CLI_PASSWORD; minio gives mc its root alias through MC_HOST_mesh.