Re: lisp-mysql connection password encryption?

Harley Gorrell <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:03:34 -0400 (EDT)

Newsgroups	gmane.lisp.allegro
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On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Christine Wilson wrote:
> I have ACL 6.2 connecting to Mysql, but do not want to
> have my user password showing in plain text in the Lisp
> code.  Does anyone have any ideas as to how to accomplish
> this?

 * Ask the user to enter a password when it is needed.

 * Read the password from the env.  (sys:getenv
"MYPASSWORD") -- While the password is still in cleartext,
you wont have it in the code or cvs.  The password to the
production server can be more closely hidden by limiting
access to the production account in which  the envvar is set.

harley.