Script with sensitive info

Joseph Bruni jbruni@mac.com
Wed Jul 23 23:47:01 2003


Make it executable but not readable.

OTOH, If you can't trust the "root" user on this unix system, you can't trust anything on it.


 
On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 12:19PM, <kynn@panix.com> wrote:

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>I want to write a Perl script whose operation requires it to have some
>sensitive information (bank account passwords, etc.).  This script is
>meant to run non-interactively, so having it prompt the user for this
>information is not an option.  Also, encrypting the file itself would
>render the script uninterpretable by /usr/bin/perl.
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>Is there a way to use Gnupg to solve the problem of protecting this
>script?  (I realize that the script is already protected by my Unix
>account password, but I would like more protection than that.)
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>Thanks!
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>KJ
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