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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to store the passwords securely and use in scripts? Post 303034033 by Neo on Wednesday 17th of April 2019 12:27:09 AM
Old 04-17-2019
Hey Ravinder,

Don't worry about it at all.

Most people make the same mistake, because your original reply was based on the "correct theory" which is not to store passwords in clear text.

Unfortunately, in practice, as mentioned, every one of the millions of WP and CMS sites on the web all have clear text DB passwords stored in config files.

If you don't have experience with deploying these CMS, you would not know that.

In defense of freely available CMS software, they must store DB passwords somewhere, so generally speaking it is a matter of standard unix / linux filesystem and file security.
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CMS_sign_receipt(3SSL)						      OpenSSL						    CMS_sign_receipt(3SSL)

NAME
CMS_sign_receipt - create a CMS signed receipt SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/cms.h> CMS_ContentInfo *CMS_sign_receipt(CMS_SignerInfo *si, X509 *signcert, EVP_PKEY *pkey, STACK_OF(X509) *certs, unsigned int flags); DESCRIPTION
CMS_sign_receipt() creates and returns a CMS signed receipt structure. si is the CMS_SignerInfo structure containing the signed receipt request. signcert is the certificate to sign with, pkey is the corresponding private key. certs is an optional additional set of certificates to include in the CMS structure (for example any intermediate CAs in the chain). flags is an optional set of flags. NOTES
This functions behaves in a similar way to CMS_sign() except the flag values CMS_DETACHED, CMS_BINARY, CMS_NOATTR, CMS_TEXT and CMS_STREAM are not supported since they do not make sense in the context of signed receipts. RETURN VALUES
CMS_sign_receipt() returns either a valid CMS_ContentInfo structure or NULL if an error occurred. The error can be obtained from ERR_get_error(3). SEE ALSO
ERR_get_error(3), CMS_verify_receipt(3), CMS_sign(3) HISTORY
CMS_sign_receipt() was added to OpenSSL 0.9.8 1.0.1e 2013-02-11 CMS_sign_receipt(3SSL)
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