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Re: Credentials for Application use

from [Alexander Klimov] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: Re: Credentials for Application use
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 18:11:30 +0300 (IDT) 
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Mikey wrote:

This is a broad question around the current practices and recommendation of
what not to do when it comes to credentials used by applications to gain
access to a resource or data stored elsewhere.


As you can guess similar questions were discussed countless number
of times on securityfocus :-) The usual practice is to create an
account for your program and store the `secret' in the file which is
readable only by that account owner.

-- 
Regards,
ASK
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