At 10:37 AM 10/25/2005, Dale Herrig wrote:
>I developed a test script to login using the following:
>
> ie.text_field(:name,"id").set("username")
> ie.text_field(:name,"passwd").set("password")
>
>This works just fine but I had to hardcode the password. We have some
>concerns about clear text passwords in scripts.
>
>So the question is, is there a way to create an encrypted password and
>store in a binary file and then have the test script read the binary file
>and encode the password, perhaps something like:
>
>ie.text_field(:name,"passwd").setEncrypted(password.encrypted.file)
>
>I did not find anything in the archive about this, but perhaps I missed.
Where would you store the encryption key? How would you store it? As clear
text?
The common solution to this problem is to put the passwords in a separate
file that is not stored with the scripts. This avoids hard-coding.
require 'passwords'
ie.text_field(:name, "passwd").set($user_password)
Your suggested use of encryption sounds like waving a magic wand without
really protecting anything. I am sure that there is a way to do what you
ask, but i just don't see the point.
Bret
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