root password in a .py script

[Bart Nessux]

I have to place a root password into a Python script. Is there a way to
encode it so that one can't read the password when viewing the file, but
when the sting is used it's decoded? For example:

pass = "#$%^&@*#&*$^@"
instead of:
pass = "root-password"

Thanks,

Bart

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:11:30 -0500, Bart Nessux <ba*********@hotmail.com> wrote:

I have to place a root password into a Python script. Is there a way to
encode it so that one can't read the password when viewing the file, but
when the sting is used it's decoded? For example:

The only remotely secure way is to do what Unix does in /etc/passwd (to name
a well-documented example). As far as I can see.

/Jorgen

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[Peter Hansen]

Bart Nessux wrote:

I have to place a root password into a Python script. Is there a way to
encode it so that one can't read the password when viewing the file, but
when the sting is used it's decoded?

No.

[Istvan Albert]

Bart Nessux wrote:

I have to place a root password into a Python script. Is there a way to
encode it so that one can't read the password when viewing the file, but
when the sting is used it's decoded? For example:

pass = "#$%^&@*#&*$^@"
instead of:
pass = "root-password"

Why do you need it decoded?

You could list the encrypted root
password and then if the input password
encrypts to the same thing then it means it was
a valid one.

i.

[Wayne Folta]

As others have pointed out, it's totally insecure, but I had to do
something similar so did...

import string

unshifted = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVW XYZ'
shifted = 'nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJ KLM'
rot13_table = string.maketrans(unshifted, shifted)

user = string.translate ('sjkeiulkje', rot13_table)
passwd = string.translate ('eorpoipoe', rot13_table)

[Gerrit]

Wayne Folta wrote:

import string

unshifted = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVW XYZ'
shifted = 'nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJ KLM'
rot13_table = string.maketrans(unshifted, shifted)

user = string.translate ('sjkeiulkje', rot13_table)
passwd = string.translate ('eorpoipoe', rot13_table)

This is actually totally equal to:

'eorpoipoe'.encode('rot13')

Gerrit.

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