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Using Encrypted Passwd in FTP scrip
Name: abirla Date: July 14, 2003 at 12:16:49 Pacific OS: Solaris CPU/Ram: USII/2GB
Comment:
How can I use encrypted passwds in shell scripts to login to FTP servers?
Name: David Perry Date: July 17, 2003 at 05:03:43 Pacific
Reply:
ftp, pop3, telnet are clear text protocols. Perhaps it would be better to store the passwd in a file that is only readable by the owner and have the shell script read the value from the file.
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