Sorry again, even better: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SplitSettings
fruity wrote: > Thank you very much. > > After a while of searching on django-snippets there was the answer :) > > http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/94/ > > Brice Leroy wrote: >> Easy, >> put your password in a settings_secret.py file, do not import this >> file on your repository. Add: >> from settings_secret import mysql_password >> ... >> you're set :) >> >> Brice >> >> 2009/12/21 fruity <fru...@freaknet.org>: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'd like to protect the mysql password that is in settings.py >>> >>> I read in the django docs that is possible to use SHA1 hashes as >>> password for mysql and I've tried using mysql to salt and hash the >>> password but still if I would have my project on a public svn|git >>> repository anyone could just read sha1$salt$hash and reverse it. >>> >>> Is there any common practice to protect this password? For example to >>> have it into an external file sources by the settings.py and use a svn >>> or git ignore on it? >>> >>> Also, how do you generate the hash? via mysql? slappasswd? cracklibs? >>> And how do you escape weird chars in the salt? >>> >>> I've tried to add sha1$mysaltnoweirdchars$hash and it gives me error on >>> django release 1.1 >>> >>> Thank you very much for your time. >>> >>> fruity >>> >>> -- >>> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Django users" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.