It's not a good scenario for the authentication information to be held in the database in plain text. I did some reading on the topic and it sounds like the best solution for us would be to do symmetrical encryption with a key held in a readable-only-by-root file.
imain
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12 years ago
It's not a good scenario for the authentication information to be held in the database in plain text. I did some reading on the topic and it sounds like the best solution for us would be to do symmetrical encryption with a key held in a readable-only-by-root file.