any way to encrypt passwords in shell scripts?

[Philip Choi_1]

I need to use passwords in shell scripts to login to other systems and use pgp and such. Is there any way to encrypt the passwords in shell scripts? I'm sure this is a generally encountered problem in unix environments.

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi P.

I would go for ssh or scp. Its reliable and the password would not go clear text over the network.

Gideon

[John Dvorchak]

I would suggest that you use ssh as mentioned before but to actually encrypt the password in the script the only thing I can think of is to either us ed with the crypt option set or to use cryp (man (1) crypt) to encrypt the script. I have never tried to encrypt a script but I don't know why it wouldn't work. That would prevent anyone, unless they knew the cryp "key" from reading the script. It would still send the password in clear text across the LAN, that's why using ssh is more secure.

[Steven E. Protter]

If you go with ssh, here is a cookbook on how to set up password free ssh login.

SEP

[Philip Choi_1]

Thanks guys for your responses. I'm going to have to study this a bit. How do I assign points?

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi,

You could check:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do

Gideon