Hi Guys, I am working on an application which needs to connect to MySQL database for updating/insertion etc. For the application to pickup the username/password I've created a config file somewhere on the system which looks like this: <snip> [mysqld] user=root password=mypassword port=3306 </snip> Problem is that this file can be read by root on that server and my password pretty much known to anyone who has root access. Is there anyway I can keep the password in encrypted format and still connect to mysql database? . Just to give an example of what I am looking at, in openldap you can generate a password in encrypted format using slappasswd -t {MD5} -s mypassword and store it in your slapd.conf file. Even if someone does get access to slapd.conf, still s/he cannot decrypt the password very easily. Please note that I cannot hard code the password into my application, since the root password for MySQL is subject to change without notice to me. TIA, Chiragz