Re: How to do basic user/pass storage..

[David Ayers]

Jason Clouse wrote:

> On 2004-01-27 16:10:48 +0900 S.J.Chun <chunsj@embian.com> wrote:
>
> > I think you can just encrypt your passwd data and store it using MySQL.
>
>
> I may have been a little confusing there.  I'm not talking about 
> storing usernames and passwords *in* a MySQL database.  I'm talking 
> about storing database connection information on the local machine.  
> So people can store their connection info for different MySQL database 
> servers.  I was just wondering if there were some encryption / 
> decryption classes in base.  Then I could store the information in the 
> defaults system.

Encryption is out of scope for the -base library, but you could have a 
look at the dev-libs/gscrypt library.  I'm not sure whether it's in 
production use and how the API really works.

> While I'm on that topic, why not store each defaults domain in a 
> separate file?

This has been suggested before and IIRC there are arguments for and 
against it (please check the archives) and no argument was convincing 
enough to alter the implementation.