[cisco-voip] OT: storing passwords securely in unix scripts

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

this group is a smart bunch of cookies. anyone have any idea how to securely store passwords on unix/linux so that i can run scripts that require passwords? 

until Cisco builds SSH key pair recognition (or is it there already? ;), this seems like the only option. 

i don't want to be storing passwords in plain text regardless of how secure the directory might be. or at least avoid it if at all possible. 

thoughts? 

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