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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Best way to hide password in bash script? Post 302412099 by frans on Sunday 11th of April 2010 06:06:17 PM
Old 04-11-2010
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Originally Posted by dukevn
(...) no need to type anything else (pass phrase for example).
You can create a key pair whithout passphrase. You'll only need to give the password once for the key transfer.
 

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CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD(3)					     curl_easy_setopt options					      CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD(3)

NAME
CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD - set passphrase to private key SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD, char *pwd); DESCRIPTION
Pass a pointer to a zero terminated string as parameter. It will be used as the password required to use the CURLOPT_SSLKEY(3) or CUR- LOPT_SSH_PRIVATE_KEYFILE(3) private key. You never needed a pass phrase to load a certificate but you need one to load your private key. The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option. DEFAULT
NULL PROTOCOLS
All TLS based protocols: HTTPS, FTPS, IMAPS, POP3S, SMTPS etc. EXAMPLE
TODO AVAILABILITY
This option was known as CURLOPT_SSLKEYPASSWD up to 7.16.4 and CURLOPT_SSLCERTPASSWD up to 7.9.2. RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if TLS enabled, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space. SEE ALSO
CURLOPT_SSLKEY(3), CURLOPT_SSH_PRIVATE_KEYFILE(3), libcurl 7.54.0 December 21, 2016 CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD(3)
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