Re: Protecting database passwords
| From: | - Edwin - | Date: | Thu, 01 Jul 2004 06:40:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Protecting database passwords | ||
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On Thursday 01 July 2004 08:25, Chris W. Parker wrote:
> zeus@ix.netcom.com <mailto:zeus@ix.netcom.com>
>
> on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 4:15 PM said:
> > How can I use a password hash to log on to a database
> > server (or for any other login for that matter)?
>
> i apologize. i completely misunderstood your original
> post.
>
> in which case, i can think of only two things (not to say
> there aren't more): 1. restricting access to the file via
> permissions, and 2. putting the file outside of the web
> root so that it can not be requested via the web.
If you're on a shared environment and if all the users are
running under the same UID then permissions wouldn't
really matter...
- E -