RE: How to encrypt shell scripts on Unix
- From: "Bobak, Mark" <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>, <Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:43:03 -0400
Also, if you create Oracle accounts w/ external (O/S) authentication,
you can avoid passwords all together in your scripts.
-Mark
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Mark J. Bobak
Senior Oracle Architect
ProQuest Information & Learning
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which shouldn't be
done at all. -Peter F. Drucker, 1909-2005
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared Still
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 2:24 PM
To: Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: How to encrypt shell scripts on Unix
On 10/11/06, Hameed, Amir <Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi folks,
I am interested in knowing if anyone has successfully encrypt
their
shell scripts (particularly on Solaris) that contained sensitive
information (passwords, etc..) and how did they do it. I am
trying to
use the "shc" utility which is supposed to do the job but it is
not
working and keeps giving errors.
Any feedback will be appreciated.
You may want to consider an alternative: do not put sensitive
information (like passwords) into shell scripts.
Use some type of password server to supply passwords to
the script at runtime.
Benefits are twofold:
1) no passwords in your scripts.
2) when passwords change, no modifications to the script are required.
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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
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