Best way to store a database password in a startup script / config file?
- by Mark Harrison
So our web server apps need to connect to the database, and some other apps have startup scripts that execute at boot time.
What's the best way to store the name/password for these applications, in terms of
security, e.g. perhaps we don't want sysadmins to know the database password
maintainability, e.g. making the configuration easy to change when the password changes, etc.
both windows and linux solutions appreciated!