Kelly J Flowers wrote: > I'm using Tomcat 5.5 to run a web application. I have the connection pools > set up and working in the context.xml but the password is in plain text. > Does anyone know of a way to encrypt the password and username to the > database?
This is nearly always pointless. A couple of points to consider: 1. If the password is encrypted, where do you store the decryption key? 2. If an attacker can read the context.xml file they probably have shell access to your box. In this case you have bigger problems. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
