<html><head><base href="x-msg://73/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Agreed, this is a pain. I've tried many things, none of which are very elegant. Your phraseology triggered a new idea though -<div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>it's still not pretty but it's possibly less ugly.</div><div><br></div><div>/wes</div><div><br><div><div><div>On Mar 2, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">this group is a smart bunch of cookies. anyone have any idea how to securely store passwords on unix/linux so that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>i can run scripts that require passwords?<br><br>until Cisco builds SSH key pair recognition (or is it there already? ;), this seems like the only option.<br><br>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.<br><br>thoughts?<br><br><span name="x"></span>---<br>Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.<br>Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1<br>(519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (ANNU)<br>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<br>Cooking with unix is easy. You just sed it and forget it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> - LFJ (with apologies to Mr. Popeil)<br><span name="x"></span><br></span><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>cisco-voip mailing list<br><a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip</a><br></div></span></div><br></div></div></body></html>