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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I encrypt a password in a sh script Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 09:26:19 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 30 Message-ID: <31D407AB.666@www.play-hookey.com> References: <31d42659.26716616@news.hq.af.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Scott Gregory wrote: > > I have a sh script that FTP's to another machine and downloads some > files. I currently have the username and password in the script: > > ftp -n <<EOF > open foo.bar.com > user foouser foopassword > bin > prompt > mget * > quit > EOF > > Is there any way to encrypt the password?? I would like to make it at > least a little difficult for someone to get the password : - ) > > The script is run as root so its not a problem to change permissions. > I have my doubts about encrypting the password, since it would then have to be decrypted before being transmitted. However, I do hope that script file is owned by root and is only readable by root (use chmod 400 filename). I do something like that for a script I setup for the cron daemon to use popclient to get e-mail from other hosts for my family. I hope this helps! Ken