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Posted by Johnathan Allen   (49 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Mon 01 Dec 2003 10:26 AM (UTC)
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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)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #1 on Mon 01 Dec 2003 04:37 PM (UTC)
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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
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Posted by Magnum   Canada  (580 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #2 on Mon 01 Dec 2003 07:27 PM (UTC)
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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/

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Magnum.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (22,990 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date 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

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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