Thank you very much. After a while of searching on django-snippets there was the answer :)
http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/94/ Brice Leroy wrote: > Easy, > put your password in a settings_secret.py file, do not import this > file on your repository. Add: > from settings_secret import mysql_password > ... > you're set :) > > Brice > > 2009/12/21 fruity <fru...@freaknet.org>: >> Hello, >> >> I'd like to protect the mysql password that is in settings.py >> >> I read in the django docs that is possible to use SHA1 hashes as >> password for mysql and I've tried using mysql to salt and hash the >> password but still if I would have my project on a public svn|git >> repository anyone could just read sha1$salt$hash and reverse it. >> >> Is there any common practice to protect this password? For example to >> have it into an external file sources by the settings.py and use a svn >> or git ignore on it? >> >> Also, how do you generate the hash? via mysql? slappasswd? cracklibs? >> And how do you escape weird chars in the salt? >> >> I've tried to add sha1$mysaltnoweirdchars$hash and it gives me error on >> django release 1.1 >> >> Thank you very much for your time. >> >> fruity >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >> >> >> > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
