[FX.php List] Lesson learned about password values

[DC]

egrep is your friend for "tracking down and locating" strings in files.

on mac osx open terminal, cd to the root of your "scripts" directory, 
and run this:

egrep -rn 'typepasswordhere can have spaces and can be a regexp' *

r means recurse, n means tell the line number, and star means check 
every file in the directory.

you'll see filenames with line numbers where your string appears.

cheers,
dan

Jonathan Schwartz had written:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm trying to track down the source of unauthorized emails going through 
> my mail server.  The problem is, when I first started using PHPMailer, I 
> used a hard-coded Username and Password.  Guess what?  I now need to 
> locate and edit every script in every project that contains that 
> password pair.
> 
> If I had used a variable and stored it into a centrally-located include 
> file, the change would have been made just once...or at least once per 
> project.
> 
> Is server_data the right place?  If so, then that would require a change 
> in every solution/project. Otherwise, where would one store a single 
> server_data file that feeds all solutions?  I've heard discussion about 
> not storing the server data on the same machine, also.
> 
> Thx
> 
> Jonathan
> 
>