On 3 May 2005 at 9:21, Also Sprach Michael Nachbaur:

> On May 3, 2005, at 3:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> > can store these details elsewhere (preferably encryped) and reference 
> > then
> > from the xsp somehow?
> 
> I'm not sure how MySQL functions, but I know with PostgreSQL it can 
> read in its connection details from environment variables.  So I have 
> entries in my Apache configuration (which is readable only by root) 
> that look like the following:

I have
PerlAddVar DBIconfig blahblah

and reference them from within perl. I've never used xsp so can't 
comment on it.
Are environment vars considered safe?
My httpd.conf isn't root only readable. I always meant to test that, but 
stuff got in the way...

John
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