I have used a similar approach (though I've never used Config::Inifiles...somehow I missed it...I'm going to check it out) and it works pretty well for us. In our case we develop on Win32 systems and then run the applications on Unix systems...so we use different Config files to handle the differences between Win32 and Unix.

The authentication is interesting to me as we've recently been looking at requiring login + authentication on our applications to ensure that only folks authorized to be commanding our systems are allowed to do so (we already have a login layer just to get on the command & control computers and that's been good enough so far...but we're in the midst of some changes that make that vulnerable). So I've been considering having a development login and an operations login. So this thread is especially interesting to me.

ack Albuquerque, NM

In reply to Re^2: Single file oriented for different usage by ack
in thread Single file oriented for different usage by arbingersys

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