On Friday, December 22, 2017 at 4:47:04 PM UTC-5, Joe Percival wrote: > > I am writing an extension that requires login credentials for a remote > machine. What is the best mechanism for doing this that does not require > hard coding in the python script? >
if it is ssh-related (e.g., scp, rsync) then use PKI (a public/private key pair). if you must provide username/password, then put those in a configuration file then have the python code read the configuration file. if you are really paranoid, have the python read the file each time it needs to authenticate (so that the values are not retained in memory). but if you're that paranoid, there are probably plenty of other things than a username/password that keep you up... m -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
