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Re: using the credentials database


From: Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 00:49:02 -0700

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:12:14AM +0200, Patrik Karlsson wrote:


5. There are currently very few scripts that make use of the library for
storing credentials.
   There are none that make use of reading from the database.
   This will of course hopefully change over time.
   Until then the documentation regarding global credentials needs to be
very clear so that users don't mistakenly think they can use it.

Great points.  Maybe this one (few scripts using credentials yet)
should be addressed before adding more features on to the credentials
library.  It seems like we have a large number of scripts which could
benefit from creds.lua.

Cheers,
-F
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