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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How Do I Hide the Password in a Script Post 302097160 by funksen on Wednesday 22nd of November 2006 04:38:42 AM
Old 11-22-2006
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funksen, is there a way to pass that encrypted password to the command in my script?

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I don't think so, the command expects the password in cleartext and not the encrypted password

in your case I would rather use sudo and specify the "su" command for use without a password
 

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dircproxy-crypt(1)					      General Commands Manual						dircproxy-crypt(1)

NAME
dircproxy-crypt - Generate encrypted password for dircproxy SYNOPSIS
dircproxy-crypt [-hv] [password]... DESCRIPTION
dircproxy-crypt generates encrypted passwords for the dircproxy(1) configuration file. These passwords are used in the 'password' configu- ration option of a connection class, and are compared to the password you configure your IRC client to use. If you do not supply any plain text passwords to encrypt on the command line then dircproxy-crypt, when run, will ask you for one on stan- dard input. It will display the encrypted version of each password, created using your system's crypt(3) function and a random salt, on standard output. OPTIONS
-h Displays a brief help message detailing the command-line arguments, then exits. -v Displays the dircproxy version number that this version of dircproxy-crypt comes with, then exits. SEE ALSO
dircproxy(1) crypt(3) BUGS
Please submit and review bug reports at: http://bugzilla.dircproxy.net/ AUTHOR
Written by Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Scott James Remnant. All Rights Reserved. dircproxy is distributed under the GNU General Public License. 11 Jan 2001 dircproxy-crypt(1)
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