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[Discuss] Passwords in Source Code?? Or, How to secure interprocess communications?
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- From: gcmarx at gmail.com (Gordon Marx)
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 18:30:15 -0500
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None of that matters. Code goes in version control. Secrets that you want to keep secret don't. Therefore, you can't put secrets into your code. Write the username and password into a configuration file, get the username and password from the environment, or use a non-password auth mechanism like an SSL certificate. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 31, 2015, at 6:25 PM, Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote: > >> On 01/31/2015 06:03 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: >> Depends on a lot of stuff. What language? Running on a system you own, or deployed to someone else, etc? > > Daemons, written in Python, on a machine I fully control. > > -kb > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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