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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Encrypt DB password in Script Post 302680149 by Corona688 on Wednesday 1st of August 2012 10:37:37 AM
Old 08-01-2012
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Originally Posted by chetan.c
Thanks Ashish/Corona688.

@cero:
Actually i want the best practice to secure the Password.
"Best practices" for retrievably-stored passwords is to not do that, at all, ever Smilie Most sane login systems refuse to use stored passwords, and some even provide safer alternative methods(like ssh keys).

If it's unavoidable, keep it in a file that's only readable by the application you need, then pass the password into the relevant application with pipes so they can't be snooped on ps.

Last edited by Corona688; 08-01-2012 at 12:31 PM..
 

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shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME
shells - shell database SYNOPSIS
/etc/shells DESCRIPTION
The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser- shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root. A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the routines which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored. The following default shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/ksh93, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh, /bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/ksh93, /usr/bin/pfcsh, /usr/bin/pfksh, /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh, and /usr/sfw/bin/zsh. /etc/shells overrides the default list. Invalid shells in /etc/shells could cause unexpected behavior, such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1). FILES
/etc/shells list of shells on system SEE ALSO
vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4) SunOS 5.11 20 Nov 2007 shells(4)
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