Re: [python-win32] Storing Passwords.

2015-01-18 Thread Tim Roberts
On Jan 18, 2015, at 12:11 PM, Alp Tunga Özkul mailto:alptungaz...@hotmail.com>> wrote: As far as i know Username + Password =(MD5/SHA) Hash. And it is irreversible. I need the actual Username and Password to login to Servers (WMI). Because lets say there is 10 different servers with 10 differen

Re: [python-win32] Storing Passwords.

2015-01-18 Thread Alp Tunga Özkul
As far as i know Username + Password =(MD5/SHA) Hash. And it is irreversible. I need the actual Username and Password to login to Servers (WMI). Because lets say there is 10 different servers with 10 different credentials that my user use to access those servers, i need to store user given cred

Re: [python-win32] Storing Passwords.

2015-01-18 Thread Christian Calderon
Why don't you just store the hash of the password? On Sunday, January 18, 2015, Alp Tunga Özkul wrote: > It does not the matter of extension, the point is users shouldn't be able > to access the previously entered passwords. > > For instance if encrypting is the answer, which libraries does peop

Re: [python-win32] Storing Passwords.

2015-01-18 Thread Joss Gray
Why don't you want to use a text file? On 18 Jan 2015 18:11, "Alp Tunga Özkul" wrote: > Hello, > > I am working on a project where my program need to access the servers with > the passwords i store in a text file. > > Is there a neat way of storing passwords other than text files? Users will > ne

Re: [python-win32] Storing Passwords.

2015-01-18 Thread Alp Tunga Özkul
It does not the matter of extension, the point is users shouldn't be able to access the previously entered passwords. For instance if encrypting is the answer, which libraries does people generally use. Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 18:16:08 + Subject: Re: [python-win32] Storing Passwords. From:

[python-win32] Storing Passwords.

2015-01-18 Thread Alp Tunga Özkul
Hello, I am working on a project where my program need to access the servers with the passwords i store in a text file. Is there a neat way of storing passwords other than text files? Users will never need to recover their passwords but the program itself have to. Thanks in advance!