Re: Securing passwords in scripts

[Jared . Still]

Interesting topic.

Would anyone be interested in a password server?

Not foolproof, but considerably more secure than putting
passwords in a script, and infinitely more flexible.

Jared



                                                                                       
                             
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I have some scripts, O.S. command and SQL, which I use to perform COLD
backups of DBs and other tasks.  I'm not particularily happy about having
username/password information in the scripts.  Has anyone come up with a
way
to avoid same allowing for the fact the scripts should require no user
input
to execute.


Sean :)

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