Re: Scripting and passwords

[Dave Horsfall <daveh@ci.com.au>]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Brendon Colby wrote:

> I routinely use Perl with the Net::LDAP module. The username and
> password is in the file but doesn't show up in the process list, of
> course. To increase security, I would create a user with access to only
> the portion of the DB that the script needs to update. If you need an
> example script I'd be happy to forward you one.

Yeah, I'd normally use Net::LDAP too, but corporate policy dictates
that we use core modules only e.g. we upgrade a branch on the other
side of the world from perl5.00503 to perl5.8.0, and those scripts
had better not need extra stuff in site_perl...

Which is why I rewrote MIME::Base64 :-)

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