thekestrel,
Hope this helps.

I think you might have read something into the question that wasn't there. There wasn't any mention of user provided credentials. It isn't a matter of comparing hashed passwords. The question is if my script needs to generate report X and needs to connect to database Y to do it, how do I store the auth information to make the connection.

I don't have a good answer and am curious to see what other responses there are. When your script is proxying credentials for an external user there are plenty of ways to avoid storing in the clear passwords. This doesn't appear to be the case here. At least it was never stated the web user will be providing credentials (clicking on a button that generates said report).

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re^2: Best practices for database passwords by Limbic~Region
in thread Best practices for database passwords by Miss Brain

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