Best practices for holding passwords in shell / Perl scripts?

Question

I\'ve recently had to dust off my Perl and shell script skills to help out some colleagues. The colleagues in question have been tasked with providing some reports from an inter

Answer 1

If the script is running remotely from the server.

1. Make your reports views
2. Give the user you are logging into ONLY access to select on the report views
3. Just store the password.

That way, all that the user can do, is select the data for its report. Even if someone happened to get the password, they would be limited as to what they could do with it.