Hello,

I am very new to Unix so I want to apologize in advance in case my question is stupid.

I wrote a KORN script that I am planning to distribute to many users. This script contains sensitive information that the users should not see: user name and password to our database servers with payroll info.

Is there a way to hide ("obfuscate"?) parts (usernames/passwords..) or the entire script from the end users while still allowing them to execute it?

I am thinking that the right CHMOD command would do the trick i.e. something like "chmod ??? myscript.ksh...". I already did a "chmod 777 myscript.ksh" so I can run/test this script in my shell account but maybe I need to do something else? Do you guys agree? Is there a better option?

Thanks in advance for helping me.

Al.