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Re: Secure ways to use DBI?by pfaut (Priest) |
on Apr 17, 2003 at 02:50 UTC ( [id://251112]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Many backends or the libraries they interface to will allow specifying connection information in environment variables. Another alternative would be to ask the user. You could also read it from a file, possibly encrypted, but that could easily be subverted by running the code with the debugger.
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