Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> writes: >> How do you use the password in an automated backup then? >> > > Actually, I do not automate it. This is the command that I use to make > the tarball: > $ tar -zcvf - /home/user/ | openssl des3 -salt -k PASSWORD | dd of=DATE.tbz > > And this one to decrypt it: > $ dd if=DATE.tbz | openssl des3 -d -k PASSWORD | tar zvxf -
So you password appears in cleartext in the shell history, probably in some logs, is ps output, etc? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
