Dear Ansa, On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:11 PM, saeed ansari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Every one, > > I am having one shell / perl script , through which i am doing all my server > maintainance work like cleaning old logs etc. Script is running fine without > any issues. But i am remotly login to almost 20 servers through this script > and doing my stuffs for which i have to hardcode my user name and password > (only one) in same scritp which i feel is scurity thread. > > Is there any way to encrypt my password in the same script which system or > script can understande but when any one else open my script not able to read > that password line. Please note i am using Unix as OS and using vi editor. > > Can any one please advice or guide me how to achieve this kind of > encryption.
Please use SSH with Public Key to achieve this. 1. Generate a Public/Provate key pair on the system where your script is runing 2. On all target servers copy your public key to /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys file 3. Now your script can invoke remote shell using SSH without any password (provided you have generated the key without any passphrase) > Thanks a lot for all your help and advice. HTH > Regards, > ansa With regards, --Dinesh Shah :-) દિનેશ શાહ / दिनेश शाह Shah Micro System -- Charles Dickens - "He would make a lovely corpse." -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
