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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Regarding shell scripts to executables Post 302152780 by ghostdog74 on Friday 21st of December 2007 07:43:16 AM
Old 12-21-2007
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Originally Posted by lokachari
Hi,

I have written a shell script for automating some of our repetitive activities. I want all my colleagues to use my script and do the activities automatically by just running the script.

But I do not want them to see the code. Is there a way we can generate something like an executable from the script, so that they have access only to the executable and they cannot see the source code.

I do not want to give just the execute permission. If I do that then I need to store the script in one common place. Since the script needs to be run in many servers then I need to copy the script in all the servers which is duplication and maintanence is difficult and every body will try to change the script.

Instead, I want to generate an executable and give that to my colleagues so that they can run it wherever they want and I alone can maintain the source code.

I am using HP-UX 11.11

thanks in advance for your help.
Then create an interface, i would suggest a web interface, where all your colleagues who are authorized to run the script will click a button and the script will run.
1) you don't need to give anybody your script. you implement the scripts on the servers which it will run from
2) you don't need to obfuscate your script.
3) of course, you must have sound security infrastructure set up for your servers, ie proper access controls, proper configurations of files, etc etc
$0.02
 

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