Esben Pedersen wrote: > Florian Lindner wrote: >> Hello, >> I've a scripts that allows limited manipulation of a database to users. >> This script of course needs to save a password for the database >> connection. The users, on the other hand need read permission on the >> script in order to execute it but should not be able to read out the >> password. What is the common way to solve this problem? >> >> My current way is to allow the users to execute the script with sudo >> while not having read permission when acting as a ordinary user. But I >> don't like this solutions and consider it very ugly. >> >> Thanks, >> Florian > > Which DB? afaik postgre has user-level authentication which means you > don't even need a password.
But all users are manipulating rows in one table and I need to check to make sanity checks on the input. Florian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
