Password protecting access to script/console ?

Sorry if this is asked and answered before, is there away to password protected access to script/console ?

I've seen a few posts on how to protect/encrypt the db passwords in database.yml, but that still leaves unprotected access to pretty much the same data via the console.

Craig's solution is best -- you can't really password protect script/ console. Even if you restrict access there, you'll need to worry about people who require your RAILS_ROOT/config/environment.rb into their scripts because that'll give them access to all your models from within their scripts.

If you really wanted to password protect the whole thing, you'll need to setup some sort of scheme whereby your webserver passes in a key or something to your rails app on boot. This same key would need to be provided by script/console and whatever other scripts you have.

All-in-all a huge headache. I'd go with Craig's solution.