[Suspected Spam]Re: script credentials

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Bryce,

Frankly, your options are extremely limited, so here goes. Embed the  
password in the perl file, harden the directory around it. Execute the  
script from crontab using root privileges. However, this is a serious  
challenge, for cron to execute.

Shomiron


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On 19-Feb-10, at 11:30 PM, Bryce Verdier wrote:

> Hello,
>
> So I've been writing a Perl script for my job. The script will be  
> run from a cron job (interval not yet set) and deposit some  
> information to a database. The database has a user with minimal  
> rights to insert data.
>
> So my question is with regards to how should the database user  
> credentials be kept. So far the discussion has had three options:
>
> 1) credentials within the script
> 2) command line
> 3) config file
>
> Each one has their own advantages & disadvantages but I would like  
> to get the opinion of the community as to which one gets the label  
> of "best practices".
>
> Thanks in advance guys,
>
> Bryce
>
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