Mark Carter wrote: > I have some python scripts that run as cron jobs. They connect to > external resources (like a newsserver) - for which passwords are > required. I currently have them stored in the scripts themselves (ouch!) > - and was wondering if there was a more secure solution.
Secure from whom? It's likely they are already being sent in clear text when they are transmitted to the server, so at the very least they are visible to anyone on that machine or on any other machine on your network who can run something like tcpdump, and to anyone with access to any of the machines on any of the other networks which carry traffic between yours and the ultimate network where the server lives. That's a lot of people already, without even looking at people with login access to the machine in question. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
