[LUNI] Help with bash script
Martin Maney
maney at two14.net
Sun Feb 4 19:24:54 CST 2007
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 10:56:24AM -0600, Samir Faci wrote:
> and if you do, make sure you chmod the hell out of that file so no one
> besides you can read it.
Yeah, that will help - when anyone who can run ps -aux on the box can
read it from the command line displayed there. Oh, it does narrow the
window somewhat, but..
> putting passwords in plain text always makes me nervous.
Encryption can only make you as secure as the fellow looking over your
shoulder as you type. I think Bruce said that, more or less.
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