Re: Question of safe data passing...

Kerayzee....
Can you not put the data in a file and set the permissions on this?
Encrypt it if you must, really this seems like a helluva lotta work.
If it were me, I'd make the server robust, not the individual scripts.

Zigster and I know of a certain software house that stores, the access details for an Oracle Database in the applications .ini file. Of course there are security measures... I mean rot13 is adequate for a 100+ user insurance system... no?

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Re: Re: Question of safe data passing... by suaveant (Parson) on Apr 27, 2001 at 17:25 UTC
A perl script has to be readable by the user running it... I am trying to devise a safe way to feed in protected data without making the script suid. - Ant	[reply]