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Author graingert
Recipients alexis, eric.araujo, graingert, tarek
Date 2013-02-01.01:45:25
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Having the password stored in a plain-text configuration file is not great security.

A better choice would be to try to use the OS keyring and then fall back to a plaintext file

An example implementation of a generic keyring python interface is available at: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/keyring/
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