bash script to read password from roots home

lord-fu · 06-04-2007, 10:53 AM

Hello,

I have a bash script that backs up nightly some stuff to an ftp server. In the script though is a password in plain sight. I saw once a thread(cant find it again) on how to have a file in roots home with pass information then to just read/include that file into the script. Could someone be so kind as to point me in the right direction?

mtia

mvidberg · 06-04-2007, 11:18 AM

You could run the script as root, then it would have access to it's own directory. Otherwise, you could chmod your root subdirs/files to be readable by group and make sure the account running the script is in that group.

lord-fu · 06-04-2007, 12:09 PM

Actually, I didn't think through what I was saying. I should just be able to read in the file. Sometimes I have to type before I think.