Re: encrypt the password stored in a file



From: "Wiggins d'Anconia" <wiggins@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Considering it is FTP who cares about permissions too. It is an insecure
> protocol to begin with, the password is sniffable during transmission
> anyways, really the words FTP and secure don't belong in a sentence
> together, unless they are included with the word NOT.
>


Maybe the protocol is SFTP and the transmission is secure...

By the way, isn't there a perl module that can crypt a string using a
password (which can be used to decrypt it back)?

Teddy

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