On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Paul Gilbert <pgilbert...@gmail.com> wrote: > One way this is often done is to have this information in a file that only > the owner can read. For example, mysql uses a file .my.cnf (in Windows it > may have a different name). The code then just reads the information from > the file. To guard against user carelessness, I think mysql will not use it > if anyone other than the user has read permission on the file. Of the > various options for passing user/password information, I think this is > general considered one of the better ways.
If anyone has a large chunk of spare time on their hands they could implement an R interface to the Gnome Keyring and store credentials in there. I think under the hood it uses dbus so first implement dbus in R. Or just call some code with system()... gnome keyring API: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/StoringPasswords command line interface: https://launchpad.net/gkeyring Probably getting a bit over the top now. Barry ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
