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Password encryption/decryption in flat-text files
Post 64720 by domivv on Wednesday 2nd of March 2005 05:39:05 AM
03-02-2005
Password encryption/decryption in flat-text files
Dear all,
If anyone has some ideas for me how to tackle the following situation:
Imagine a type of client-server application. The client application is started by a human operator with all the necessary LDAP/Kerberos in place. The server application is started automatically as a daemon process. This server application talks to an Oracle database for which it needs a connection string, username and password as a minimum.
This information is stored in a flat-text file on the system, but everything is readable : eg. EXAMPLE_DB:username
ass
Now, I know we must consider all the security all ready in place (firewalls, unix accounts with passwords, files made read-only), but ... is there some way to make the password in the flat-text file unreadable aka. encrypted and have it decrypted when needed ? The problem is that the password, when encrypted, must first be decrypted before it becomes usable to logon to the database.
Quite a lot eh?
Dominik
If anyone has some ideas for me how to tackle the following situation:
Imagine a type of client-server application. The client application is started by a human operator with all the necessary LDAP/Kerberos in place. The server application is started automatically as a daemon process. This server application talks to an Oracle database for which it needs a connection string, username and password as a minimum.
This information is stored in a flat-text file on the system, but everything is readable : eg. EXAMPLE_DB:username
assNow, I know we must consider all the security all ready in place (firewalls, unix accounts with passwords, files made read-only), but ... is there some way to make the password in the flat-text file unreadable aka. encrypted and have it decrypted when needed ? The problem is that the password, when encrypted, must first be decrypted before it becomes usable to logon to the database.
Quite a lot eh?
Dominik
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asadmin-get-client-stubs, get-client-stubs - gets the stubs of the client SYNOPSIS
get-client-stubs --user admin_user [--password admin_password] [--host localhost] [--port 4848] [--secure|-s] [--passwordfile filename] [--terse=false] [--echo=false] [--interactive] --appname application_name local_directory_path Gets the client stubs JAR file for an AppClient standalone module or an application containing the AppClient module, from the server machine to the local directory. This command is supported in remote mode only. OPTIONS
--user authorized domain application server administrative username. --password password to administer the domain application server. --host machine name where the domain application server is running. --port port number of the domain application server listening for administration requests. --secure if true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the domain application server. --passwordfile file containing the domain application server password. --terse indicates that any output data must be very concise, typically avoiding human-friendly sentences and favoring well- formatted data for consumption by a script. --echo setting to true will echo the command line statement on the standard output. --interactive prompts you for the required options that are not already specified. --appname name of the application. OPERANDS
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