Obscure password in a script

MKF62

I'm trying to automate a process of checking to see if my server services are running every morning. I'm following this example script, but I need to store my credentials in the script as I will be running it in the early morning hours and will not be sitting there to input my credentials every time it runs. Hard-coding my username and password into the script seems like a bad idea since it will be connecting to the internet by making web requests, so how do I go about obscuring or encrypting it?

This will be a standalone python script run using windows task scheduler. Working with ArcMap and Enterprise 10.7, python 2.7.

MKF62

Thanks, I was able to implement two solutions and both work equally well. I went with keyring because it seems more secure than just creating a separate python module to import into the script to get the username/password from. I'll document exactly what I did for the sake of clarity when others come across this question.

Option #1: Create a separate python module

Basically, you have two scripts. One .py file with your code doing whatever you want upon login, the other .py file with your username and password:

<SPAN class="comment token">#credentials.py</SPAN>

username <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> MyUserName
password <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> MyPassword<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN>

Then import that module into your code that's running whatever you want:

<SPAN class="keyword token">import</SPAN> arcpy
<SPAN class="keyword token">from</SPAN> credentials <SPAN class="keyword token">import</SPAN> username<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> password

<SPAN class="comment token">#Log into whatever with username and password variables to do stuff</SPAN>
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN>

Option #2: Use keyring

Pip install keyring into the ArcGIS python interpreter. Open Credentials Manager (windows) on your computer from the control panel. Go to Windows Credentials > Add Generic Credential. Fill out the internet or network address with any name (you'll reference it as a service name in your python script). Fill out the username and password with the appropriate credentials for whatever application you want your python script to login to. In your python script that utilizes these credentials:

<SPAN class="keyword token">import</SPAN> arcpy<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> keyring

<SPAN class="comment token">#The username should be what you entered as a username in the credentials manager</SPAN>
username <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">'MyUserName'</SPAN>
<SPAN class="comment token">#The first argument is whatever you entered as the internet/network address in credentials manager</SPAN>
password <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> keyring<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>get_password<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">'AGSServicesStatus'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> username<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN>