I just entered a feature enhancement for this.  (I have been sitting on
this task for too long and, when I saw your thread, I thought it was
finally time.)

"Similar to storing CFQUERY datasource connections in the ColdFusion
Administrator, I would like the ability to store usernames/passwords for
CFLDAP and CFFTP, etc in the CF Administrator.

The main purpose is to keep usernames and passwords away from
developers.  Sometimes, when using CFLDAP, you must specify a domain
administrator account to perform certain functions.

I would prefer these passwords to now always appear, in plain text, in
any pages that use CFLDAP/CFFTP."

You might add your own to increase the importance of this feature.

M!ke 

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles E. Heizer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 2:57 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Embedding Password question...

Hello,
I have a concern about embedding a password in my site. I have a site
which uses two LDAP accounts for displying and editing the site contents
which are stored in LDAP.

So my issue is that I'm storing a password in one of my cfc files which
is using an account(Service Type Account) and I'm affraid if someone
gets a hold of this cfc file they now have the account name and password
to my LDAP directory.

Can someone please suggest a better way to store the password for the
site.

Thanks,
- Charles

PS: This a is a short term need, I'm going to do a re-write to leverage
the LDAP directory and the assigned privileges in the directory to
control this but for the next few months I have to live with this.

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