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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Hiding password for FTP in a script Post 302250811 by Cass3 on Friday 24th of October 2008 10:38:36 AM
Old 10-24-2008
Hiding password for FTP in a script

Hi,

I have a simple script to ftp from unix to a mainframe to get and put files. Currently I have the password setup in a VARS file and dereference the var in my script. Doing it this way allws me to change the password in only one place but it is still viewable for many people. Is there any other way to hide the password for the ftp command?

Thank you!
 

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yppasswdd(8yp)															    yppasswdd(8yp)

Name
       yppasswdd - server daemon for modifying the yellow pages (YP) password file

Syntax
       /usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd file [ -m arg1 arg2 ...  ]

Description
       The daemon is a server that handles password change requests from It changes a password entry in the specified file, which is assumed to be
       in the same format described in An entry in file will be changed only if the password presented by matches the encrypted password  of  that
       entry.

       If  the	option is given, then after file is modified, a will be performed in Any arguments following the flag will be passed to The option
       should be set only at a YP master server machine.

       This server is not run by default, nor can it be started up from If it is desired to enable remote password updating for the yellow  pages,
       then an entry for should be put in the file of the host serving as the master for the yellow pages file.

Examples
       If the yellow pages password file is stored as then to have password changes propagated immediately, the server should be invoked as:
       /usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd /var/yp/src/passwd -m passwd DIR= /var/yp/src

Files
See Also
       yppasswd(1yp), passwd(5yp), ypfiles(5yp), ypmake(8yp)

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