On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 08:20, Erik Forsberg wrote:
> I could store the users' password in the session, but that feels so
> very wrong - from a security point of view, I dont' want to store the
> password anywhere if an attacker gains access to the session store.

I'd put this sort of information in a module global -- i.e., in memory. 
It's fairly secure there (especially compared to something that might
get pickled to disk).  Treat it like a cache, and then recreate
connections or such as necessary.

  Ian




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