perlquestion
Kozz
I'm reading up on MySQL because I would like to
begin implementing it for greater flexibility
& speed (as opposed to flat files), especially
for databases that could potentially be MUCH
larger than just a few hundred records (say,
100,000 or more).<BR>
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My question is this: What's the best way to
store these records if they contain sensitive
information such as credit card numbers, names,
phone numbers, etc? <BR>
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The scoop is this: I'm not
the only person who has a shell account on this
machine which runs both Apache and MySQL (and I
do not have root, though I do have some
influence with the administrators). In
addition, the MySQL DB login information is
stored in plain text in the perl script itself
right? I don't want somebody else to grab the
source of my perl script (either in a shell, or
with their own script executing under
nobody.nogroup) thereby gaining the MySQL
login/pass. Are there some sort of wrappers
I should try to use? Anything?<BR>
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Or if MySQL is a bad idea for this, what <I>should</I>
I try to use?<BR>
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Thanks!
<p><i>Originally posted as a Categorized Question. </i></p>