[CALUG] Putting a Oracle User ID and Password in the Perl Script.

Dustin J. Mitchell dustin at zmanda.com
Wed Mar 25 16:00:31 EDT 2009


On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Eldon Ziegler <eldonz at atlanticdb.com> wrote:
> If Python is an option, you can leave only the compiled script installed
> and a bit of mangling will keep the ID and password from showing up in a
> dump.

To be fair, you can do the same thing in perl (Acme::Bleach).

You could do it in shell with a simple rot13 'tr' invocation, too.

Obfuscation is not the same thing as security.

Dustin

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