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

On windows create a Folder and a File within it containing the passwords in clear text. Set the user who would run the scheduled job(script or batch) as the only person with read/write access to this folder and file. (remove even administrator). To all other scripts, add code to read the clear text password from this restricted file.

This should suffice for few.

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