28Apr 2020 by Andrew Treadway
How to hide a password in a Python script

How to hide a password in a Python script

Python, System Administration
Background Python is widely used for web scraping and APIs, dealing with databases, sending emails, and other tasks that may involve credentials, like a username or password. Luckily, there are several ways to hide a password in a Python script, as well as to store multiple passwords for many users if needed. In this post, we'll talk about three such packages - keyring, passlib, and cryptography, with a focus on the first two. How to hide a password in a Python script with keyring keyring is an easy-to-use package that works by allowing you to store a password in your operating system's credential store. It's great in that it can work across multiple different operating systems. To get started, just use pip to install: [code] pip install keyring [/code] Next,…
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25Jun 2019 by Andrew Treadway
How to hide a password in R with the keyring package

How to hide a password in R with the keyring package

R
This post will introduce using the keyring package to hide a password. Short background The keyring package is a library designed to let you access your operating system's credential store. In essence, it lets you store and retrieve passwords in your operating system, which allows you to avoid having a password in plaintext in an R script. Storing a password Storing a password with keyring is really straightforward. First, we just need to load the keyring package. Then we call a function called key_set_with_value. In this function, we'll input three different parameters - service, username and password. [code lang="R"] # load keyring package library(keyring) # Store email username with password key_set_with_value(service = "user_email", username = "your_address@example.com", password = "test password") [/code] The username and password stored are just that -…
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