Re: Best Practice for Storing App Passwords?

phn_at_icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Date: 09/26/03 

Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:24:16 +0000 (UTC)

alcesteatxmissiondot@com.or.net wrote:
> Scenario:

> You have an application for which being the root user is not enough...
> in order to maintain, startup/shutdown, backup, etc from a script you
> must provide an application admin password.

> What to people do to store that password? I've done various things...
> none of which I've been completely comfortable with, including saving
> that password encrypted in a chmod 400 file.

> Just wondering if there was a "better" route.

> Jer Smith

Give the application owner the chance to fix it, the way sudo does
it ( where you supply your own password) might be a better way.
If they don't fix the app root can always kill it ( well, it's not
strictly needed from the unix point of view :-) 

-- 
Peter Håkanson         
        IPSec  Sverige      ( At Gothenburg Riverside )
           Sorry about my e-mail address, but i'm trying to keep spam out,
	   remove "icke-reklam" if you feel for mailing me. Thanx.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Best Practice for Storing App Passwords?
    ... > in order to maintain, startup/shutdown, backup, etc from a script you ... > must provide an application admin password. ... Give the application owner the chance to fix it, ...
    (comp.unix.admin)
  • Re: windows scheduler not working
    ... If I run the backup script manually, ... So, like I said, Windows Scheduler doesn't seem to be working, save for ... to what I can do to fix this? ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: check if scrip running
    ... I am running a script on ssh that backups data in a directory (copies ... "Backup Status: Running" ... the operator can call me in to fix the problem. ... It's healthy to automate operations as you appear ...
    (comp.lang.tcl)
  • lk-changelog.pl 0.167
    ... This script is used by Linus and Marcelo to rearrange and reformat BK ... fix obfuscation of unknown addresses in terse/oneline modes ... Bryan O'Sullivan's address got hosed. ... $indent is auto-generated from $indent1. ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • Re: Problem with popen on windows
    ... I just found a fix that works for me.. ... parent for the child script.. ... Private Function ParseCmdLine ... >> def system ...
    (comp.lang.ruby)
Loading