From: Bill Kelly Date: 2006-02-11T14:14:10+09:00 Subject: Re: why would i want to put my mysql password in the yml fil From: "Bill Kelly" > > It's kind of a client vs. server issue. The server (the database in this > case) can indeed store passwords in some hashed representation. Sorry for being unclear here. What I meant was what Wilson Bilkovich wrote: "[The server] merely stores enough information to verify that you've presented it with the correct password, but not enough to actually figure out what the password is, if someone stole the hard disk." Regards, Bill