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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to make script password protected Post 302152065 by Tytalus on Tuesday 18th of December 2007 12:07:46 PM
Old 12-18-2007
reasonably simple password encrypter process:

you could use perl to crypt a password e.g.:

perl -e "print crypt('password','AA');'\n'"

then use perl in your script to check the password e.g.:

/usr/bin/perl -e "print 'match' if crypt('password','AA') eq 'AA6tQYSfGxd/A';"

and do the test / exit or continue with script piece

but as noted already this does not hide the contents of the script - for very basic security it'll do though...
 

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crypt_bsdbf

crypt_bsdbf(5)						Standards, Environments, and Macros					    crypt_bsdbf(5)

NAME

       crypt_bsdbf - password hashing module using Blowfish cryptographic algorithm

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lib/security/$ISA/crypt_bsdbf.so

DESCRIPTION

       The  crypt_bsdbf  module  is  a	one-way password hashing module for use with crypt(3C) that uses the Blowfish cryptographic algorithm. The
       algorithm identifier for crypt.conf(4) and policy.conf(4) is 2a.

       The maximum password length for crypt_bsdbf is 255 characters.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |Safe			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       passwd(1), crypt(3C), crypt_genhash_impl(3C), crypt_gensalt(3C), crypt_gensalt_impl(3C), getpassphrase(3C), crypt.conf(4), passwd(4),  pol-
       icy.conf(4), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    6 Aug 2003							    crypt_bsdbf(5)
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