From: Cliff Cyphers <cdc@...2go.com>
Date: 2006-09-06T11:00:04+09:00
Subject: Re: how to hide part of the source passwords etc

Didier wrote:
> Well If i want to let users do say runas something it must
> be done in client server or xml rpc or whatever the flavor.
>

How about ruby2scriptexe?

> 
> a huge drawback for Ruby (and Python).

Java isn't much safer in this regard.  It's fairly straight forward to 
decompile byte code to the original.