On 1/19/2015 12:07 AM, Tim Roberts wrote: > On Jan 18, 2015, at 12:11 PM, Alp Tunga Özkul <alptungaz...@hotmail.com > <mailto:alptungaz...@hotmail.com>> wrote: >> >> As far as i know Username + Password =(MD5/SHA) Hash. And it is >> irreversible. I need the actual Username and Password to login to Servers >> (WMI). >> >> Because lets say there is 10 different servers with 10 different >> credentials that my user use to access those servers, i need to store user >> given credentials for the next session. > > There is simply no general solution. If your program can recover the > plaintext password, then anyone with access to the text files can recover > the plaintext password. > > If you don’t want to store the passwords, then your only solution is to ask > the user to enter them every time.
I'm probably missing some crucial point here, but with Python being the host environment, why wouldn't the Python "keyring" module provide the hardened storage the OP is seeking? Each major OS (Windows, OS X and Linux) has an operating system-hosted location for storing sensitive data--such as passwords--so they cannot easily be accessed. The "keyring" provides a framework for accessing each. Absolutely no need to store them in plain text files on any OS.
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