Re: How to protect MySQL password
| From: | Kurt Lieber | Date: | Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:39:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: How to protect MySQL password | ||
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On Tuesday 23 October 2001 11:13, Andy wrote:
> Problem is, that I cannot see any solution to protect the value of $sDBpsw.
> Of course I wont set the value of $sDBpsw in the same PHP script. I do
> that including a file pa/pa.php (protected area) but this file also has to
> have read access to all users and could be read with fopen( "URL", "r" ).
You need to use a program such as php-cgiwrap to "wrap" the script so it can
be called using your user credentials. Then, you can chmod the file to 700
and it will be protected. Downside; you have to use the cgi version of PHP,
rather than the apache module.
--kurt