Re: Storing password in machine.config

From: Mike Shaw (mikeshaw@online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/03/03 

From: "Mike Shaw" <mikeshaw@online.microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:53:48 -0000

Hi Nick

No, its best avoided! See the article
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329290 for the way
to encrypt and store your credentials for the process identity in the
registry.

Regards

Mike 

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"Nick" <Nick@Bluefield.com.hk> wrote in message
news:#0HjXkV4CHA.1808@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I need to access some network resources from within my ASP.NET
application.
> The suggested way seems to be to create a mirrored ASPNET user on the
second
> machine with the same password.
>
> This works fine but means I have to store the new password of the ASPNET
> account in the machine.config file.
>
> Is there a better way to do this or a way to not have the password in
plain
> text in the file?
>
> Is this generally accepted as secure?
>
> Thanks
>
> Nick
>
>

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