From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2008-09-22T13:00:09+09:00
Subject: Re: how to manage passwords

Junkone wrote:
> many of my ruby apps have the password hard coded. i am looking for a
> way so that i can control the password not to be stored as text file.
> what are the ruby options that are available.
>   

Do you need to know what the stored password is, or do you just need to 
validate passwords?

If the latter, you can use the MD5, SHA1, or SHA2 libraries that come 
with Ruby:

require 'digest/sha1'

#Could load the hash from a file instead
hash = Digest::SHA1.new.update("mypassword")

print "Enter password: "
input_password = gets.strip

if hash == Digest::SHA1.new.update(input_password)
        puts "Access granted."
else
        puts "Access denied."
end


-Justin