Re: script credentials

[Ansgar Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2010-03-01 jason.gerfen () gmail com wrote:
> If your working with perl and are worried about exposing your password
> through a config file (which you could limit access through with the
> proper permissions), or as noted above in regards to exposing the
> username, password information through arguments then you might want
> to utilize an encrypted version of the password within the config
> file. Take a look at the mcrypt perl module as it would handle it
> easily for you: http://search.cpan.org/dist/MCrypt/MCrypt.pm

What exactly is that supposed to solve? The OP's script would need to
decrypt the credentials in order to authenticate against the database.
Meaning that he'd need *another* password/key to do that. Which would
have to be stored somewhere as well.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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