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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to hide/encrypt password in script? Post 302453369 by kvok on Wednesday 15th of September 2010 04:39:49 AM
Old 09-15-2010
to hakermania :

thanks good idea but i need to have it in scripts which will be performed via cron, so I cant use it in my case .

I need to have written: login passwd@host where login & passwd need to be hidden.
 

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