in reply to Safeguarding sensitive information

A little more information please.

What exactly are you trying to do?

As an ex-security guy, my eyes started twitching at the mention of storing passwords. ;-),

At the base level, this does have risk. You can chmod the file so that only your id has access but then you still risk somebody getting your id. There are many arguments for not doing this.

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Re: Re: Safeguarding sensitive information
by Baz (Friar) on May 15, 2002 at 23:04 UTC
    Well, one of the passwords is my MySQL password. My perl scripts need this passwords in order to access the database. I've heard that its not safe to put the password in the script - such as 
    $password = "kjkjkjkjkj";

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