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

[Wes Sisk]

Agreed, this is a pain.  I've tried many things, none of which are very elegant.  Your phraseology triggered a new idea though -
store the password in a file that is only accessible with a key.  This could be a disk image or an ssh session to a location that has the information where ssh authentication uses key pairs.

it's still not pretty but it's possibly less ugly.

/wes

On Mar 2, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi wrote:

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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