Cody Fendant has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Not strictly a Perl problem.
Say you have a script, on a Linux machine, which needs to communicate with a database. It needs a username and password.
Hard-coding the password into the script isn't secure, and also the password will change.
I'm sure this is a solved problem, but I can't think what the solution is. Can the script request a password from another place without a coder who is editing the script being able to view the password?
Say you have a script, on a Linux machine, which needs to communicate with a database. It needs a username and password.
Hard-coding the password into the script isn't secure, and also the password will change.
I'm sure this is a solved problem, but I can't think what the solution is. Can the script request a password from another place without a coder who is editing the script being able to view the password?
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