[freetds] Simple password question

ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT Frediano.Ziglio at vodafone.com
Thu Feb 3 03:36:47 EST 2005


> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have been developing a daemon process on Linux for a little 
> application
> that talks to a MSSQL server.
> At the moment during testing I control the username & 
> password settings in
> the environment,
> But that's not very safe.
> 
> What would be the securest place to store this type of info, where the
> application can pick it up from ??
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> 

A file (you can also check that only you can access this file). Or any
keyring (kernel from 2.6.10, or gnome/kde ones however I never used any
of them).

freddy77



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