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On Oct 11, 2021, at 2:24 PM, Emily Lynema <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I'm curious to survey the community -- has anyone found a way to store > database administration passwords used by technical services staff that is > both user-friendly and secure? For example: the passwords to configure NC > State's various OCLC resources / services / databases. > > -- > Emily Lynema > Head, Information Technology > North Carolina State University Libraries > 919-513-8031 A possible way to save secrets such as usernames and passwords is to save them as environment variables. This way there are only two different people who can read them: 1) the superuser of the computer, and 2) the person themselves. From the command line, a person can then issues commands like the following to get the username/password combination: $ echo $OCLCUSERNAME $ echo $OCLCPASSWORD This technique also provides opportunities for automatic login or the completion of RESTful queries. This technique will work in just about any computer environment: Macintosh, Windows, Linux. -- Eric Morgan