Barry, that's a great idea. I have created a package that allows you to read/write passwords to user's keychain:
http://www.rforge.net/keychain So far it uses the Security framework so you'll need a Mac, it but I'm about to add a generic fall-back system (encrypted file on-disk) and possibly the gnome API as well. Cheers, Simon On Dec 18, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > 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 > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
