How to configure database connection securely

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Hi all, I ha

Answer 1

I think it's hard to do : it's like you don't want a user of stackoverflow to know his password. A user can always trace his network traffic and see the user/password (you can had an encoding, but it still won't be 100% sure I think).

I think that you should add a webservice between your user and your database with a unique id for each user.