topic Re: Save Portal Password Securely in Python Questions

Save Portal Password Securely

Anonymous User — Wed, 13 May 2020 13:04:06 GMT

We have a Pro geoprocessing tool that will eventually be published as geoprocessing service. This tool requires Portal authentication to access secured feature services. Currently we are saving built-in Portal username and password into a config file, but I wonder if there's a way to avoid saving password as cleartext (also don't want to prompt user every time they use the GP tool or service) and handle the authentication.

Re: Save Portal Password Securely

JoshuaBixby — Wed, 13 May 2020 15:43:58 GMT

This is one of those age-old programming questions, and the answers range from quite involved and very secure to simple and basically secure. Although dated, the discussion at security - I need to securely store a username and password in Python, what are my options? - Stack Overflow is still mostly relevant today. I especially like drodgers answer because he present several different approach with basic trade offs of each approach.

Re: Save Portal Password Securely

forestknutsen1 — Thu, 14 May 2020 16:39:54 GMT

I have seen a combination of keyring · PyPI and windows Windows Credential Vault used in the past.

How is python-keyring implemented on Windows? - Stack Overflow

Re: Save Portal Password Securely

GeoSolver — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 19:04:20 GMT

Thanks for the helpful replies. I think the keyring solution will probably work for me, as I can set it up locally and on the servers that will running these scripts.