Re: Resource Security

2007-08-17 Thread Mark Thomas
Christopher Schultz wrote: > Andrew, > > Andrew Hole wrote: >> Is it possible encrypt password on Resource setup? > > No (still). And for good reason. First off all, why does the resource password need to be encrypted? The threat is that an attacker gains unauthorised access to the box locally

Re: Resource Security

2007-08-17 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew, Andrew Hole wrote: > Is it possible encrypt password on Resource setup? No (still). - -chris PS Yes, you can write your own data source manager that decrypts the credentials or whatever, but then you have to store /that/ password somewhere.

Re: Resource Security

2007-08-17 Thread David Smith
Nope. You could write your own db pool init code in a ServletContextListener and then do anything you want as far as how to store the pool configuration if you really need to encrypt the password. The standard tomcat configuration files don't offer any facility for encrypting passwords thoug