<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">I believe that what you’re looking for is called a “secret broker”, and I don’t know of any that are implemented in Python. However, you could always use a secret broker implemented in another language, and just call out using the subprocess module. You should take a look at <a href="https://vaultproject.io/">https://vaultproject.io/</a> and <a href="http://square.github.io/keywhiz/">http://square.github.io/keywhiz/</a>.</div> <div><br></div>David Baumgold<br> <div id="bloop_sign_1438111533831461888" class="bloop_sign"></div> <div class="airmail_ext_on" style="color:black"><br>From: <span style="color:black">Matt Shields</span> <a href="mailto:matt@mattshields.org"><matt@mattshields.org></a><br>Reply: <span style="color:black">Matt Shields</span> <a href="mailto:matt@mattshields.org"><matt@mattshields.org>></a><br>Date: <span style="color:black">July 28, 2015 at 10:46:59 AM</span><br>To: <span style="color:black">flask@python.org</span> <a href="mailto:flask@python.org"><flask@python.org>></a><br>Subject: <span style="color:black"> [Flask] Database credentials in clear text <br></span></div><br> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><div></div><div>
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<div dir="ltr">So far as I've been developing all my credentials
have been contained in a config.py file in clear text. Is
there any way to not keep these in clear text or in a file in the
application path?
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<div>One of our .NET developers mentioned that when they are
developing .NET apps, they put all their credentials into
the Windows Locker and their app is authorized to get the
credentials as needed.<br>
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