[Gambas-user] gambas settings

[Charlie Reinl]

>Charlie Reinl wrote:
>> 2. I was shocked, while I saw my database passwords in plain text in 
>> gambas-database-manager.conf. 
>> I can't find words  for that .
>> That  may be  usefull, and helpfull  for lazy ones , but that is not realy

>> security.
>
>You could encrypt the passwords, but the database manager would have to 
>decrypt them anyway... where would you store the passwords' password?
>
>(This will be a problem even if you ship a compiled application with a 
>hardcoded password.)
>
>Perhaps the password should be asked at runtime.

YES 

Or aske if it could be stored !

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