[Users] Can I avoid password openser.cfg ?

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu bogdan at voice-system.ro
Thu Sep 28 11:10:41 CEST 2006


Ronald Wiplinger wrote:

> Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
>
>> Roland,
>>
>> you can not hide the passwd. What you can do is to set more 
>> restrictive access to your config file (use chmod)
>
> Is it possible to use include a file? and keep the passwords there?
> If you have a problem, you would like to share the real code, but with 
> passwords in it, it is difficulty.

the cfg file does not support an "include" directive - you can use M4 
for this purpose, but  guess it will not help in your case, as the 
generated cfg file will contain the passwd.
I think the only solution is to set restrictive "read" permission on the 
file.

regards,
bogdan




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