it is for use of sftp through pysftp.

> On Dec 22, 2017, at 2:04 PM, mwall <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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