Re: encoding scripts (so that user can't see passwords easily)?

[Jim Drash <jim dot drash at gmail dot com>]

Can you make it harder? Yes. I can think of lots of ways to make it
harder.  The easiest is to prompt them for the userid and passwords
that they need when they need them and don't store them at all.


On 12/6/05, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org> wrote:
> Jim Drash schrieb:
> > If someone can get physical access to the disk, then there is not a
> > single thing you can do to stop someone who is:
> >
> > 1) Knowledgeable
> > 2) Determined
> > 3) has time
> > 4) is a criminal
>
> But I could certainly stop someone who is *not* knowledgeable nor
> determined, and his "criminal cracking" gnowledge ends when he presses
> Enter after typing "grep -r password /".
>
> Why do you think mail clients, web browsers and other software don't
> store the passwords in plain?
>
>
>
> --
> Tomek
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>
>

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