DataFlex

Resolve the FTP Password from OS Secure Storage

Demonstrates the EnableSecrets property, which lets password properties contain a secret specification beginning with !! that Chilkat resolves from the operating system's secure storage instead of using the literal text.

Background: This is a cleaner alternative to reading a secret yourself and assigning it: with EnableSecrets on, you set the password to a reference like !!my_secret_name and Chilkat fetches the real value from the platform's secure store. The literal password never appears in your source or configuration, which is exactly the practice recommended throughout these examples.

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Use ChilkatAx-win32.pkg

Procedure Test
    Boolean iSuccess
    Handle hoFtp
    String sTemp1

    Move False To iSuccess

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatFtp2)) To hoFtp
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoFtp))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoFtp
    End

    Set ComHostname Of hoFtp To "ftp.example.com"
    Set ComUsername Of hoFtp To "myFtpLogin"

    //  EnableSecrets (default False) allows password properties to contain a "secret specification"
    //  beginning with "!!" that Chilkat resolves from the operating system's secure storage instead
    //  of using the literal text.
    Set ComEnableSecrets Of hoFtp To True

    //  Provide a secret specification rather than a literal password.  Chilkat looks up the named
    //  secret in the OS secure store.
    Set ComPassword Of hoFtp To "!!my_ftp_password_secret"

    Get ComConnect Of hoFtp To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoFtp To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    Showln "Connected using a password from OS secure storage."

    Get ComDisconnect Of hoFtp To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoFtp To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End



End_Procedure