newb Q: security with variables

[Olivier Dagenais]

How about encrypting the contents of the file?  Or using a One Time Password
challenge/response mechanism?

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Olivier A. Dagenais - Carleton University - Computer Science III


"Toy" <gee308 at mediaone.net> wrote in message
news:397BE388.349CCA17 at mediaone.net...
> Could you please explain to me various secure ways of having a python
> script store variables such as your password/username in a file.
> I understand that you can chmod 0400 <variables.file>, but are there any
> other alternatives?
>
> Also, can you run python code with files that don't end with the python
> extensions(.py and others)?  That way it would make it less obvious that
> it was some sort of script.  Thanks
> Jason Toy
> toyboy at toy.eyep.net
> http://toy.eyep.net
>