Re: Ooops!
Re: Ooops!
- Subject: Re: Ooops!
- From: Barry Wainwright <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 17:14:26 +0000
> On 2 Nov 2014, at 15:59, Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Barry,
> you said: " don’t use the “with hidden answer” option in the display dialog command, the administrator password will be saved in the script in plain text where it can be easily accessed. “
>
> You are assuming this. Without seeing the code, you actually don’t know this for a fact.
> If the last line of the script is
>
> set thePassword to “”
>
> the password is gone. Also, as I do in many scripts if you encrypt the password, then it will not be available when you look at the script.
> It is a good point to raise, but you can not be sure you have this problem if you don’t ask the original scripter.
You’re right, I don’t know this. And not knowing how a script handles a password is a very good reason for not trusting a script that asks for one!
I was simply trying to point out that this is generally bad practice.
--
Barry
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