From: pioto@pioto.org (Mike Kelly)
Subject: [sup-talk] Encrypted password in configuration file
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:48:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090828184859.59b7f825@aether.home.pioto.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090824215435.182e0007@ronin.larsko.net>
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:54:35 +0100
Lars Kotthoff <lists at larsko.org> wrote:
> is it possible to store the account password encrypted in the
> configuration file?
Along the lines of what Jim said, doing any sort of two-way encryption
on the password is a wasted effort. There are other sort of
authentication mechanisms which are probably more appropriate
(certificate-based, Kerberos/GSSAPI, ...).
--
Mike Kelly
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-28 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-24 20:54 Lars Kotthoff
2009-08-28 2:37 ` Jim Cheetham
[not found] ` <20090828012502.15484x8musndy5mo@webmail.seas.upenn.edu>
2009-08-28 7:07 ` Jim Cheetham
2009-08-28 7:23 ` Lars Kotthoff
2009-08-28 9:28 ` Jim Cheetham
2009-08-28 20:29 ` William Morgan
2009-08-28 22:48 ` Mike Kelly [this message]
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