Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] security

[Bradley W. Langhorst]

On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 09:06, sigurdne wrote:
> How secure is the passwords given in “header.inc.php”
> Is it possible with some kind of encryption?
> My company’s database manager is not particularly happy by the fact that the 
> database password is stored in plain text.
it doesn't have to be...
if you use postgres i think you can set things up to do identd
authentication.

header.inc.php does not have to be readable by anybody but the webserver
user - how else are you going to store a password

brad