[FX.php List] Lesson learned about password values

[Bob Patin]

Dan,

What a GREAT trick! I don't need it now, but I know I will sometime.

Thanks for sharing a great trick,

Bob Patin
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On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:17 AM, DC wrote:

> 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
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