Recently I posted code in Protect your passwords for perl scripts for review and got some good stuff back. Now I am pleased to announce the alpha release of PSC. http://psc.sourceforge.net

PSC is a setuid C wrapper that opens a protected conf file and drops priviledge, it then execs your perl script, leaving a filehandle for the script to open. Config::Secure (: my first module on CPAN :) initializes the file and optionally can parse the config file for you, giving you a nice hash. It also resets $0 to be the name of the wrapper script.

I created this due to search to find a way to hide DBI passwords in system and cgi scripts, but it can be used for any protected data.

Thanks to tye, zaxo and anyone else who gave me input.

                - Ant
                - Some of my best work - Fish Dinner

In reply to PSC (Perl Secure Conf) by suaveant

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