[Toolserver-l] Switchboard/FastCGI on new webserver

[Kalan]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 21:45, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist at gmail.com> wrote:
> So how do you store your passwords, such that the web server can read
> them to connect to the database but can't read them to serve the files
> containing the passwords?

Every user has a ~/.my.cnf file outside the public_html directory. The
file is readable by any scripts run on behalf of this user.

— Kalan