encoding scripts (so that user can't see passwords easily)?

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Christopher Faylor schrieb:
> 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?
>>
>>One of such "similar" tools is Microsoft Script Encoder, but perhaps 
>>it's licensing wouldn't allow me to distribute it along with my files.
>>
>>That's actually how I discovered Cygwin - I had to replace srvany.exe, 
>>(which I couldn't distribute), and I found cygrunsrv :)
> 
> 
> Just to be sure: you do realize that you can't distribute cygrunsrv
> without also including the sources to cygrunsrv and cygwin1.dll
> (assuming that you're including that file), right?  This is a GPL
> project.

Yeah I know, my project is GPL licensed as well.

So, as we know the legal stuff, does anyone have the answer to my 
question (encoding/encrypting scripts)?


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