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Jared Still wrote: > I use a (Perl) password server for this. > > Passwords are stored encrypted in a configuration file. > > Clients authenticate with the server, and receive a requested > password (encrypted) across the network, if the client is > entitled. > > The user authentication is rudimentary, but it works. > SSH certificates would be better, just need to do it. This is more of the direction I'm going; i.e., I don't want a DBI-specific password file as a requirement since I'm looking at a central way of storing a variety of passwords, DBI and non-DBI. I think the file idea is fine as an environment- or configuration-driven _option_. -- Steve Sapovits steves06@comcast.netThread Previous | Thread Next