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- From: K.R.Hauge@easteur-orient.uio.no (Kjetil Ra Hauge)
- Subject: Re: Hide text strings in a stack?
- Message-ID: <K.R.Hauge-210193105733@hfmac17.uio.no>
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- Organization: U. of Oslo
- References: <broun-190193142544@broun.apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:58:14 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- In article <broun-190193142544@broun.apple.com>, broun@apple.com (Kevin
- Broun) wrote:
- >
- > I'm using the Mount XCMD to mount a password-protected AppleShare server
- > volume. Can anybody out there recommend a relatively secure way to hide a
- > couple of short text strings (username & password) somewhere in a stack
- > (maybe encrypted somehow or in a resource), where they can be retrieved by
- > a script that would then call the Mount XCMD?
- >
- > Just putting the strings in a script and using "Protect Stack" isn't
- > sufficient since many word processors can just open up the data fork of the
- > stack and see the scripts... Thanks for your help!
- >
- > - Kevin Broun
- > Apple Library
-
- The latest edition of Developers' stack has the XFCN GetIt and PutIt, which
- get and put a variable into a DATA resource. Rinaldi's XFCNs include
- ResText, which does the same thing, only with a TEXT resource. Both to be
- found at good fileservers everywhere.
-
- Kjetil Raa Hauge, U. of Oslo, Norway
-