Hi,
I watched the cron module development video and implement in my site. My idea, with each cron call I connect to a FTP server and download stuffs if there is new files. For this purposes, I kept the password of ftp in the module files (not sure if it is secure). I have couple of problems,
A. When cron is called then my theme changes from the default one.
B. Where I should store the password of FTP where I am connecting.

Any idea how this should be done?