CellProfiler/CellProfiler — Issue #144: JIRA [IMG-1061] ExportToDatabase has password in plaintext
Author: thouis
Created: 2011-11-23 20:50:21+00:00
State: open
Labels: current

ExportToDatabase saves the password to the database in plaintext which presents users with a considerable security risk:
* You can see the password if you open the pipeline file
* You can see the password in the uploaded pipeline file
Some people might not care and some people might. Those that do care should have have the option of entering the password by the keyboard per-run, entering it by command-line switch or by the preferences.
This bug will be fixed when:
* Code for uploading pipelines successfully obscures the password
* A mechanism is put in place to save the password in preferences w/o storing the password persistently, with password entry at the command-line, in preferences or per-run.

Original reporter: leek
Jira link: https://jira.broadinstitute.org/browse/IMG-1061
Fix version: Current
Assignee: leek

**Comment from leek on Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:51:01 -0400:**
Fixed code upload.