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Re: Hiding passwords

From: <Reginald.W.Bailey_at_jpmorgan.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:14:28 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D0D61.20030923081428@fatcity.com>

You can try creating a password table that stores encrypted passwords, then use a simple procedure that uses the encryption routine in the Obfusication Toolkit to get and set the password.
Or you can make the database userid to be identified externally, so no passsword is needed.

RWB


Reginald W. Bailey
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baileyre_at_us.ibm.com


                                                                                                                             
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So the story goes like this. We're a NT/W2K shop. We have various scripts that run DB related jobs but these are in plain text and we'd like to
"hide"

these passwords in some way to allow scripts to run but the passwords not be
"visible" to potential prying eyes. Has anyone cracked this one yet. I've
had a trawl around MetaLink but found nothing of substance.



Seán O' Neill
Organon (Ireland) Ltd.
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