I have a page in my ASP.Net application where I show all of my AppSettings, connection strings, etc. But I didn’t want to show the passwords. I wanted something like:
server=MyServer;uid=MyUserId;pwd=*******;database=MyDatabase;
So here is the code to strip out the password:
private string stripPassword(string connString)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(connString))
return connString;
int pos = connString.ToLower().IndexOf("pwd");
if (pos > -1)
pos += 4;
else
{
pos = connString.ToLower().IndexOf("password");
if (pos > -1)
pos += 9;
else
return connString;
}
return connString.Substring(0, pos) + "*******" +
connString.Substring(pos +
connString.Substring(pos).IndexOf(";"));
}