[Gambas-user] gambas settings

[Daniel Oxley]

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From: gambas-user-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:gambas-user-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Benoit
Minisini
Sent: 16 November 2004 14:54
To: gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] gambas settings

On Monday 15 November 2004 22:58, Charlie Reinl wrote:
> Salut Benoit,
>
> two remarkes about gambas settings.
>
> 1. have a look to the attached archiv, you can add gambas executable to
the
> list, and you can delete them from the list.
>
> But they don't realy dissapear in the list, thats only why I added the
> 'Count'.
> Whats needed is a Settings.Clear to empty the settings.
>

And if you set NULL to the settings you want to remove ?

> 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.
>
> That Windows 98 like.

And worse... if you put a password in your code, the password will be
readable 
in the project executable.

As for the database manager, the solution is some crypting, or simply not 
storing the password in the configuration file.

I will do crypting when I have a component to do it :-)

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There was a reader on this list who submitted a blowfish cryption module.
He was called Brent I believe.  Could this not be used?