On Jan 19, 2015, at 12:51 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > The same problem arises. If the program can get the password > out of the keyring, then so can any user who is capable of > running the program. ... > > Keyrings allow a user to keep his or her passwords secret > from *other* users. The OP seems to want to keep the *user* > of the password from being able to know it, which is > fundamentally impossible.
Actually, I don’t think that’s correct. I think he is trying to remotely administer a number of systems, and he just wants to be able to do logins for remote administration without having to retype the authentication every time. It’s the kind of thing where a Linux user would use ssh with a key forwarding agent. I started to “pooh pooh” the keyring suggestion as well, and as I was typing my reply I realized it was pretty much the right answer. — Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
