Re: any standart way to keep passwords encripted???

2004-04-05 Thread Paul Mansfield
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 02:10, Parsons Technical Services wrote: > And if I am in control of the server, then I have access to that certificate > as well. > > The point is simply that with proper permissions your password is as safe as > it needs to be. If someone gets to it, you have way bigger pro

Re: any standart way to keep passwords encripted???

2004-04-02 Thread Parsons Technical Services
> > If I can read the server.xml then I can read your .class file the decrypts > > it and thus can still get your password. > I still can use certificate to encript decript... And if I am in control of the server, then I have access to that certificate as well. The point is simply that with prope

Re: any standart way to keep passwords encripted???

2004-04-02 Thread David Smith
Hi. I've had some time to think about this subject especially since others have brought it up before. The real honest to goodness problem is that eventually you'll need to deal with a password. That's just unavoidable. You could encrypt the password, but that would just need another password

Re: any standart way to keep passwords encripted???

2004-04-02 Thread Emerson Cargnin
Parsons Technical Services wrote: Emerson, - Being in plain text in server.xml (as configured for tomcat) Protect the file with permissions. - Read the web.xml by a standalone app and encript the password, in my connection servlet I read it and decritp it. - Have a separate file for each pool,

Re: any standart way to keep passwords encripted???

2004-04-02 Thread Parsons Technical Services
Emerson, > - Being in plain text in server.xml (as configured for tomcat) Protect the file with permissions. > - Read the web.xml by a standalone app and encript the password, in my > connection servlet I read it and decritp it. > > - Have a separate file for each pool, this file,encripted, woul

Re: any standart way to keep passwords encripted???

2004-04-02 Thread Emerson Cargnin
How can I mantain databases passwords without : - Being put in the code (arg) - Being in plain text in server.xml (as configured for tomcat) I use another approache than the pool from tomcat, that consist in a separate servlet and a PoolManager, which is accessed in a static way. (so other a

any standart way to keep passwords encripted???

2004-04-02 Thread Emerson Cargnin
Is there any standart way to keep the passwords of databases encripted when creating a pool through tomcat? -- Emerson Cargnin Analista de Sistemas Setor de Desenvolvimento de Sistemas - TRE-SC tel : (048) - 251-3700 - Ramal 3181 ---