Hi all

When creating an Net::ftp object,

my $username = 'xxxxx';
my $password = 'yyyyy';

my $ftp = Net::FTP->new('my.ftpserver.com', Debug => 0);
my $ftp->login($username,$password);

what security measures can be taken to hide (or to make it really inconvenient to access) the username and password? Thanks.

You mean as far as someone getting to the source of the script? I don't think there is anything you can really do when it comes to how it's transmitted to the ftp site from Net::FTP..

It only adds very little but I read my username and password from a txt file on the file system.. So you end up with something like:

my $ftppassfile = 'path/ftpuser.pass';
my ($ftp_username,$ftp_password);
open (FTPPASSFILE, "$ftppassfile") or die "Couldn't open $ftppassfile: $!\n";
while (<FTPPASSFILE>) {
($ftp_username,$ftp_password) = split;
}

my $ftp_conn = Net::FTP->new('my.ftpserver.com', Debug => 0);
my $ftp_conn->login($ftp_username,$ftp_password);

-Chris