From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: pioto@pioto.org (Mike Kelly)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:48:59 -0400
Subject: [sup-talk] Encrypted password in configuration file
In-Reply-To: <20090824215435.182e0007@ronin.larsko.net>
References: <20090824215435.182e0007@ronin.larsko.net>
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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