What is the best way of hide a password?

Question

I have a Python script that is connecting to the database. To that, obviously, I need the password. I need to hide it somewhere.

My problem is that this code is stored in a folder that everybody who has access to the server can look. So, if I write this password encrypted in a file, in the code will appear the key to discover it and people can figured it out.

So, please, if anyone has an idea..

Answer 1

You're using a scripting language and accessing a database directly with a password. No matter what you do, at some level that password is going to be easily accessible. Obscuring it doesn't really buy you much.

You have to rely on the machine's security and permissions, and perhaps the database (restricting access from that particular machine and user).