diff --git a/schemachange/cli.py b/schemachange/cli.py
index 31745f43..2146350b 100644
--- a/schemachange/cli.py
+++ b/schemachange/cli.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import argparse
+import copy
 import hashlib
 import json
 import os
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@
 _log_auth_type ="Proceeding with %s authentication"
 _log_pk_enc ="No private key passphrase provided. Assuming the key is not encrypted."
 _log_okta_ep ="Okta Endpoint: %s"
+_err_non_str_secret ="Found a secret that is not of type str."
 
 #endregion Global Variables
 
@@ -183,7 +185,7 @@ def redact(self, context: str) -> str:
     redacted = context
     if redacted:
       for secret in self.__secrets:
-        redacted = redacted.replace(secret, "*" * len(secret))
+        redacted = redacted.replace(secret, '\n'.join(["*" * len(l) for l in secret.split('\n')]))
     return redacted
 
 
@@ -799,7 +801,10 @@ def inner_extract_dictionary_secrets(dictionary: Dict[str, Any], child_of_secret
           else :
             extracted_secrets = extracted_secrets | inner_extract_dictionary_secrets(value, child_of_secrets)
         elif child_of_secrets or "SECRET" in key.upper():
+          if not isinstance(value, str):
+            raise ValueError(_err_non_str_secret)
           extracted_secrets.add(value.strip())
+ 
     return extracted_secrets
 
   extracted = set()
@@ -809,6 +814,33 @@ def inner_extract_dictionary_secrets(dictionary: Dict[str, Any], child_of_secret
       extracted = inner_extract_dictionary_secrets(config["vars"])
   return extracted
 
+
+def redact_config_vars(config_vars: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+  # Our goal is simply to print the config vars to stdout, but:
+  # - If we serialize to YAML and then redact, we won't redact multiline secrets,
+  #   because YAML dump would add leading whitespace to them, changing them.
+  # - If we serialize to JSON and then redact, we may end up redacting floats, integers, etc,
+  #   and we could not deserialise anymore in order to finally serialize to redacted YAML.
+
+  # Therefore, we have this function here, which sole purpose is to redact the config_vars
+  # dict leaf nodes (only those of type str). This dict can then be serialized to YAML 
+  # or any other format by the caller.
+
+  # Using an inner function, cause I don't want to expose this generic signature to
+  # the caller, given the limited scope of what we are trying to accomplish
+  def inner_redact_config_vars(ob: Any) -> Any:
+    if isinstance(ob, dict):
+      return {key: inner_redact_config_vars(value) for key, value in ob.items()}
+    elif isinstance(ob, list):
+      return [inner_redact_config_vars(value) for value in ob]
+    elif isinstance(ob, str):
+      return SecretManager.global_redact(ob)
+    # Just to be sure, making a deep copy, cause ob can be a reference type 
+    return copy.deepcopy(ob)
+  
+  return inner_redact_config_vars(config_vars)
+
+
 def main(argv=sys.argv):
   parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog = 'schemachange', description = 'Apply schema changes to a Snowflake account. Full readme at https://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/schemachange', formatter_class = argparse.RawTextHelpFormatter)
   subcommands = parser.add_subparsers(dest='subcommand')
@@ -883,11 +915,10 @@ def main(argv=sys.argv):
     print("Using variables: {}")
   else:
     print("Using variables:")
-    print(textwrap.indent( \
-      SecretManager.global_redact(yaml.dump( \
-        config['vars'], \
-        sort_keys=False, \
-        default_flow_style=False)), prefix = "  "))
+    print(textwrap.indent(yaml.dump( \
+      redact_config_vars(config['vars']), \
+      sort_keys=False, \
+      default_flow_style=False), prefix = "  "))
 
   # Finally, execute the command
   if args.subcommand == 'render':
diff --git a/tests/test_SecretManager.py b/tests/test_SecretManager.py
index 2ed70acb..7736516e 100644
--- a/tests/test_SecretManager.py
+++ b/tests/test_SecretManager.py
@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ def test_SecretManager_given_secrets_when_redact_then_return_redacted_value():
     assert result == "Hello *****!"
 
 
+def test_SecretManager_given_multiline_secrets_when_redact_then_return_redacted_value():
+    sm = SecretManager()
+    sm.add("Hello\nworld")
+    result = sm.redact("Hello\nworld!")
+    assert result == "*****\n*****!"
+
+
 def test_SecretManager_given_secrets_when_clear_then_should_hold_zero_secrets():
     sm = SecretManager()
     sm.add("world")
diff --git a/tests/test_extract_config_secrets.py b/tests/test_extract_config_secrets.py
index 91560746..0a0b8b4f 100644
--- a/tests/test_extract_config_secrets.py
+++ b/tests/test_extract_config_secrets.py
@@ -52,3 +52,12 @@ def test_extract_config_secrets_given__vars_with_same_secret_twice_then_only_ext
 
     assert len(results) == 1
     assert "SECRET_VALUE" in results
+
+
+def test_extract_config_secrets_given__vars_with_multiline_secret_then_preserve_newlines():
+    config = {"vars": {"secrets" : {"database_name": "SECRET\nVALUE"} } }
+
+    results = extract_config_secrets(config)
+
+    assert len(results) == 1
+    assert "SECRET\nVALUE" in results
diff --git a/tests/test_redact_config_vars.py b/tests/test_redact_config_vars.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..02bdeacd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_redact_config_vars.py
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+import pytest
+from schemachange.cli import redact_config_vars, SecretManager
+
+
+def test_redact_config_vars_given_secret_val_should_redact_it():
+    config_vars = {'secret' : 'secret_val'}
+    sm = SecretManager()
+    SecretManager.set_global_manager(sm)
+    sm.add('secret_val')
+    results = redact_config_vars(config_vars)
+    redacted = {'secret' : '**********'}
+    assert results == redacted
+
+
+def test_redact_config_vars_given_number_like_secret_should_redact_it():
+    config_vars = {'secret' : '123'}
+    sm = SecretManager()
+    SecretManager.set_global_manager(sm)
+    sm.add('123')
+    results = redact_config_vars(config_vars)
+    redacted = {'secret' : '***'}
+    assert results == redacted
+
+
+def test_redact_config_vars_given_number_like_secret_should_redact_it_but_not_an_actual_number():
+    config_vars = {'secret' : '123', 'public': 123}
+    sm = SecretManager()
+    SecretManager.set_global_manager(sm)
+    sm.add('123')
+    results = redact_config_vars(config_vars)
+    redacted = {'secret' : '***', 'public': 123}
+    assert results == redacted
+
+
+def test_redact_config_vars_given_secret_should_redact_it_in_any_string_it_finds_it():
+    config_vars = {'secrets': {'password' : 'hi'}, 'jdbc': 'jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1;user=john;password=hi'}
+    sm = SecretManager()
+    SecretManager.set_global_manager(sm)
+    sm.add('hi')
+    results = redact_config_vars(config_vars)
+    redacted = {'secrets': {'password' : '**'}, 'jdbc': 'jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1;user=john;password=**'}
+    assert results == redacted
+
+
+def test_redact_config_vars_given_secret_should_redact_it_in_any_string_it_finds_it_even_in_lists():
+    # At the moment, it's not documented that we could specify lists as values for variables, but,
+    # nothing is preventing people from trying things. Just in case, redact_config_vars is
+    # able to also redact strings inside lists. That's why this test is here.
+    # Finally note that tuples are not scanned, just making the point that this redact function cannot
+    # do everything; YAML deserialises lists as Python lists, not tuples, so we have no use case for tuples.
+    config_vars = {'secrets': {'password' : 'hi'}, 'jdbc': 'jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1',
+                   'accounts': [{'user': 'john', 'password': 'hi'}], 'greetings': ['hi', 'hello'], 'greetings_tuple': ('hi',)}
+    sm = SecretManager()
+    SecretManager.set_global_manager(sm)
+    sm.add('hi')
+    results = redact_config_vars(config_vars)
+    redacted = {'secrets': {'password' : '**'}, 'jdbc': 'jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1',
+                'accounts': [{'user': 'john', 'password': '**'}], 'greetings': ['**', 'hello'], 'greetings_tuple': ('hi',)}
+    assert results == redacted
+
+