Re: Best Practice for Storing App Passwords?
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Date: 09/26/03
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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 :-)
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