Hello Dancers, Somewhat related to the "sensitive" config data in SCM" topic discussed recently, I would like to suggest the followng small patch to "Dancer::Plugin::Database" : Instead of specifying "username/password" in your yml config file, I've added a new setting called "credentials". This one points to a simple text file that would contain the user name and password. With this one can checkin all the configuration files, never worrying about passwords. Samba uses similar option in "smbclient" . So my new config looks like this: ==== plugins: Database: driver: 'mysql' database: 'devdb' credentials: 'database.secret' ===== And the username password are stored in "database.secret": ===== $ cat database.secret username=myuser password=mypassword ==== The patch is available here: https://github.com/agordon/Dancer-Plugin-Database/commit/5564d0c729899c45b86... Comments are welcomed, -gordon