Best practices for storing/retrieving login credentials

From: Roy Gunnarsson (rgunnarsson__REMOVE___at_excelsior.edu)
Date: 06/26/03 

Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:34:32 -0400

Hello all,

I am planning for an application that will be used to delegate a series of
tasks to clerical staff in my organization. One step involves connecting to
an FTP site for which our organization has a single account. I don't wish to
endow everybody with the login credentials and was wondering what the best
way to store and retrive the encrypted credentials is. I know I could have
people use an FTP client with the login already set up, but I want to make
the process as fool-proof as possible (not to imply that my co-workers are
fools...) and prefer to simply code and automate that part as well. I
already have the FTP functionality coded but obviously don't want to
hardcode the login in plain text. I'm just wondering what's being done in
such circumstances.

Thanks,

Roy Gunnarsson

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