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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Encrypting the login password on Solaris 10 Post 302413377 by Corona688 on Thursday 15th of April 2010 11:49:37 AM
Old 04-15-2010
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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
In general, putting passwords out in files is a big security leak. Don't do it.

And while markdjones code will encrypt it, it would take any programmer about 10 minutes to crack it. So that means you would have to encrypt the perl code as well.
There used to be a tool to create an executable image from perl. I dunno if it is still around.
Surprisingly, it still is. 'perlcc'. I tried it once to speed up perl scripts that an ancient Pentium-based server was grinding under the weight of. It produced nonworking executables 5 megabytes in size. Needless to say I wasn't impressed -- with perlcc or perl in general...
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

lsh-krb-checkpw

LSH-KRB-CHECKPW(8)						    lsh manuals 						LSH-KRB-CHECKPW(8)

NAME

       lsh-krb-checkpw - program to check a Kerberos username/password combination

SYNOPSIS

       lsh-krb-checkpw username-to-check

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the lsh-krb-checkpw command.	This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the orig-
       inal program does not have a manual page.  Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.

       lsh-krb-checkpw is a program that checks if a username and password combination is valid for login  by  doing  a  kerberos  lookup.  It	is
       designed to be used as a password helper program for lshd (8), (eg.  --password-helper=/usr/sbin/lsh-krb-checkpw.

       lsh-krb-checkpw	takes  one  required argument, which is the username, and reads the password from stdin, then returns 0 if the password is
       valid, or 1 otherwise. Note that the password must be supplied exactly, ie. there must be no newline after the  password,  so  if  invoking
       from a shell, just type "<your-password><CTRL-D>".

SEE ALSO

       lsh(1), lshd(8).   The programs are documented fully by Lsh, available via the Info system.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

lsh-krb-checkpw 						    Nov 15 2005 						LSH-KRB-CHECKPW(8)
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