[Qgis-user] obscurate DB password from .qgs project

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Giovanni,

On Fri, 16. Nov 2012 at 20:07:43 +0100, G. Allegri wrote:
> > The other way to do it would be to add a user-defined "master" passphrase
> > (entered at run-time) to unlock all of the encrypted passwords, assuming
> > there are many. Exactly like Thunderbird/Firefox's Master Password.

> That's what I also was thinking to. I have dozens of layers and I can't ask
> the uset to set the pw for each one.  I hope I will be able to manage this
> through code...

QGIS will only ask for each connection once and cache the credentials in memory
- so if you have multiple layers from the same database, you should see the
request only once.


Jürgen

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