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Re: clear-text passwords in shell/perl scripts

Subject: Re: clear-text passwords in shell/perl scripts
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:38:14 +0000


Jeff Robertson wrote:
Can anyone either refute or provide further points in support of my stance
on this?

I would say that file permissions are the only good way to protect the password here. That said, some sort of scrambling (even of a trivial ROT13 style) would prevent things like trivial shoulder-surfing when
someone who does have read permission looks at the source code.


Rich.
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