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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to store the passwords securely and use in scripts? Post 303034153 by karumudi7 on Friday 19th of April 2019 01:24:48 PM
Old 04-19-2019
Sorry for the late message....


Thanks for all the valuable inputs.


Here is the scenario:
I have a group of developers that write scripts on AIX 7.
I don't want everyone to hard code the database (IBM DB2) passwords in their shell script.
If I put the global configuration file and controlled with file system permissions, one can use
Code:
echo

statement to split that into a log.


I think the other way to achieve is, if I provide a database connect method in global file, then one can call the method when the script needs to connect to database. Still there will be security gaps, but may be a workaround.
 

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systemd-ask-password-console.service

SYSTEMD-ASK-PASSWORD-CONSOLE.SERVICE(8) 	       systemd-ask-password-console.service		   SYSTEMD-ASK-PASSWORD-CONSOLE.SERVICE(8)

NAME

       systemd-ask-password-console.service, systemd-ask-password-console.path, systemd-ask-password-wall.service, systemd-ask-password-wall.path
       - Query the user for system passwords on the console and via wall

SYNOPSIS

       systemd-ask-password-console.service

       systemd-ask-password-console.path

       systemd-ask-password-wall.service

       systemd-ask-password-wall.path

DESCRIPTION

       systemd-ask-password-console.service is a system service that queries the user for system passwords (such as hard disk encryption keys and
       SSL certificate passphrases) on the console. It is intended to be used during boot to ensure proper handling of passwords necessary for
       boot.  systemd-ask-password-wall.service is a system service that informs all logged in users for system passwords via wall(1). It is
       intended to be used after boot to ensure that users are properly notified.

       See the developer documentation[1] for more information about the system password logic.

       Note that these services invoke systemd-tty-ask-password-agent(1) with either the --watch --console or --watch --wall command line
       parameters.

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), systemd-tty-ask-password-agent(1), wall(1)

NOTES

	1. developer documentation
	   http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents

systemd 208												   SYSTEMD-ASK-PASSWORD-CONSOLE.SERVICE(8)
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