[wplug] Novell Netware Attach script question

Eric C. Cooper ecc at cmu.edu
Thu Jun 5 16:26:02 EDT 2003


On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:40:28PM -0400, Mike Griffin wrote:
> I agree with Greg on his script, for added measures of security you 
> should include the stty command. I'll include them in the script below 
> 
> 	#!/bin/bash 
> 
> 	echo -n "Enter Username: " 
> 	read username 
> 	 
> 	stty -echo 
> 	echo -n "Enter Password: " 
> 	read password 
> 	stty echo 
> 
> 	ncpmount -S servername -U $username -P $password /mountpoint 
> 
> 	username="" 
> 	password="" 
> 
> 	exit 0 

Note that anyone who does a "ps awx" at the time ncpmount runs will
see the password.  It would be better to store the password in a
mode-0600 file and pass the passwdfile=file argument to ncpmount.

-- 
Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u



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