Re: [Rd] secure password token management method in R

2011-12-18 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 18 December 2011 at 16:16, Simon Urbanek wrote: | Barry, | | that's a great idea. I have created a package that allows you to read/write passwords to user's keychain: | | http://www.rforge.net/keychain | | So far it uses the Security framework so you'll need a Mac, it but I'm about to add

Re: [Rd] secure password token management method in R

2011-12-18 Thread Simon Urbanek
Barry, that's a great idea. I have created a package that allows you to read/write passwords to user's keychain: http://www.rforge.net/keychain So far it uses the Security framework so you'll need a Mac, it but I'm about to add a generic fall-back system (encrypted file on-disk) and possibly t

Re: [Rd] secure password token management method in R

2011-12-18 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Paul Gilbert wrote: > One way this is often done is to have this information in a file that only > the owner can read. For example, mysql uses a file .my.cnf (in Windows it > may have a different name). The code then just reads the information from > the file. To g

Re: [Rd] secure password token management method in R

2011-12-18 Thread Paul Gilbert
One way this is often done is to have this information in a file that only the owner can read. For example, mysql uses a file .my.cnf (in Windows it may have a different name). The code then just reads the information from the file. To guard against user carelessness, I think mysql will not use

Re: [Rd] secure password token management method in R

2011-12-14 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Ni Wang wrote: > hi, r developers, I am now working on a R function/package to handling > online request with username and token/password. > > For security reasons, it's not so safe to store the username & token in > persistent variables, since they'll be saved to

[Rd] secure password token management method in R

2011-12-14 Thread Ni Wang
hi, r developers, I am now working on a R function/package to handling online request with username and token/password. For security reasons, it's not so safe to store the username & token in persistent variables, since they'll be saved to disk when users save their workspace. Is there a secure wa