Sorry if this has been asked before, I did check but couldn't find anything...
Is there a function in Unix to encrypt and decrypt a password in a batch file so that I can pipe it into some other commands in a bash file?
I realise that doing this provides no real security, it is more to stop someone accidentally seeing the password if they are looking at the script over my shoulder :)
I'm running on Red Hat 5.3.
I have a script which does something similar to this:
serverControl.sh -u admin -p myPassword -c shutdown
and I would like to do something like this:
password = decrypt("fgsfkageaivgea", "aDecryptionKey")
serverControl.sh -u admin -p $password -c shutdown
This doesn't protect the password in any way, but does stop someone from accidentally seeing it over my shoulder.