Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/12/06/14:36:37
Svend Sorensen schrieb:
> On 12/4/05, nidhog <nidhog AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
>>On 12/4/05, Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 12:20:57PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have a little open-source project, which eases Windows administration
>>>>a bit.
>>>>
>>>>In some of the scripts, I use usernames and passwords (to get to a
>>>>password-protected network share etc.).
>>>>Because they are scripts, username and password is in plain.
>>>>
>>>>Although the script files are only readable by SYSTEM and
>>>>Administrators, if a disk is stolen, someone could easily get the
>>>>passwords by doing simple "grep -r password ./*".
>>>>
>>>>Do you know some tool which could "encode" scripts?
>>
>>instead of storing them plaintext, why don't you try encoding them via
>>cryptographic hashes - md5, sha1, tiger and the like.
>
>
> How is the script going to get the plaintext password if all it has is
> a one way hash?
I don't really care, perhaps it won't be any one way hash anyway.
It is to be a measure to prevent an accidental viewing of
usernames/passwords rather than some "military grade" tool which takes
100 years to break on a supercomputer.
--
Tomek
http://wpkg.org
WPKG - software deployment and upgrades with Samba
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
- Raw text -