> an SSH implementation for them exists, but it is not > worth my while trying to find out, because I will not > be allowed to install anything on them (or even > suggest it). So I access them using telnetlib:
Hmm, they won;t lket you install a secure access tool but are happy to let you in with a known security horror in the shapoe of telnet.... An interesting approach to sys admin... > But surely my problem is a very common one. Every > web-app must supply a username and password to make a > connection to its backend database, for example. command line arguments? $ startapp -d mydb -l user/password & That way they are 1) kept secret(especially if you turn shell history off ;-) and 2) can be changed every time you restart the server app and 3) you can have production and test databases running simultaneously... Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
