On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 12:20:57PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >I have a little open-source project, which eases Windows administration >a bit. > >In some of the scripts, I use usernames and passwords (to get to a >password-protected network share etc.). >Because they are scripts, username and password is in plain. > >Although the script files are only readable by SYSTEM and >Administrators, if a disk is stolen, someone could easily get the >passwords by doing simple "grep -r password ./*". > >Do you know some tool which could "encode" scripts? > >One of such "similar" tools is Microsoft Script Encoder, but perhaps >it's licensing wouldn't allow me to distribute it along with my files. > >That's actually how I discovered Cygwin - I had to replace srvany.exe, >(which I couldn't distribute), and I found cygrunsrv :)
Just to be sure: you do realize that you can't distribute cygrunsrv without also including the sources to cygrunsrv and cygwin1.dll (assuming that you're including that file), right? This is a GPL project. -- Christopher Faylor spammer? -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cygwin Co-Project Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] TimeSys, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
