Bill Kranec wrote:

> I've writing a script which will download some data from the web each day
> and insert it into a table. I would like the script to be able to run
> unsupervised, which means storing a password inside. Is there a way to
> allow this sort of access and still have reasonable security?

Yes. Keep the script file away from other users. I don't know about
Windows, but on Linux you can have script file that only you and root
user can read.

If that fails (i.e. you're usign Windows 98 or some other sistem that
doesn't provide security), you can always create a small executable,
store the crypted password as string and include a decrypting routine
which will create password run-time. It is still breakable, but
requires knowledge. Whoever has that knowledge, probably knows many
other ways to break into the system.

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