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Ok.. tell me how I can call it securely? Same problem, if it has a password, it is visible in perl script, and other people can write something to access the request daemon.
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by frankus (Priest) on Apr 27, 2001 at 17:38 UTC

    It's a daemon, root can run it, you can fire it up at run time,by adding it to rc.d.
    Since root ran it you can store the DB settings in a file only root can access (you can use another user, it doesn't have to be root).

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    Brother Frankus.
      Right... but how do you prevent any script on the system from asking for the DB settings?
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        This is where we came in, isn't it?

        How's about having a db table of all the permitted scripts and methods to retrieve this data and amend it?

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        Brother Frankus.