Ah I see.

My script (an LWP Perl script) that calls the ssh to get a password from the DB,
does not reside on the web server and is not used by a web server in anyway.

But this script does need to use a password to connect to a https webpages that requires a user/password.
The machine the script resides on (M1) is seperated from the DB server with a firewall (FW1) and
seperated from the "outside world" with another firewall (FW2).

I think this set up is pretty secure. Here's where I expose my ignorance of
firewalls. FW1 only allows ssh and scp from M1 and FW2 only allows http and https to
pass through.

Does that make any sense?

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Secure ways to use DBI? by LameNerd
in thread Secure ways to use DBI? by outcast

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