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| Posted by
| Johnathan Allen
(49 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Mon 01 Dec 2003 10:26 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| Why does world.getalphaoption ("password") return a plaintext string? I'm not so sure about this and password security.
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| Posted by
| David Haley
USA (3,881 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #1 on Mon 01 Dec 2003 04:37 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| | Maybe this is so that scripts can send the password in case the MUD has a non-standard? I think this issue was discussed not so long ago... maybe searching on the forum for password or something will bring up the other thread. |
David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone
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| Posted by
| Magnum
Canada (580 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #2 on Mon 01 Dec 2003 07:27 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| | Only your main script can do this, plugins are denied the password. This should help maintain some security at least. |
Get my plugins here: http://www.magnumsworld.com/muds/
Constantly proving I don't know what I am doing...
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,158 posts) Bio
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| Reply #3 on Thu 04 Dec 2003 08:09 PM (UTC) |
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| What would you have it return? If it was base-64 encoded then one more line in the script would decode it.
If you are worried a rogue script might mis-use it, then don't use scripts written by other people.
As Ksilyan points out, you cannot get the password from a plugin, so it has to be something in your main script file. |
- Nick Gammon
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