Encrypting and executing an encrypted shell script

[Michele (Mike) Alberton]

Hi Folks !

I'm sorry if the question sounds stupid, but I would like to know if there's a way to encrypt shell scripts and execute them while encrypted.
I've used crypt to encrypt the shell script, but I don't think I can execute it before decoded.

As you can imagine our intention is to prevent our customer from playing too much with those scripts, thus blocking them in the upfront.

Is there anything like a key pair encryption to allow using a public key for execution and a private key for editing ... or anything like that ?

Thank You so much !

Mike

[Balaji N · Accepted solution]

hi

this is not encrypting / decrypting, but might provide what u want.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x4b53b10230dcd61190050090279cd0f9,00.html


there was one more thread in the last two week (... i never remember the dates) which asked for a similar question. search for it.

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Shells/shc-2.4a/

hth
-balaji

[Michele (Mike) Alberton]

Straight to the point Balaji !

Thank You so much !

Well, the Note "Use with care" worries me, but we'll see :-)

Thanks !

Mike