[Tfug] Passwords in Plain-text? Shell scripts and CIFS

[Rich]

What about doing it the other way around?

Install Cygwin and have the Windows machine periodically rsync its  
stuff to the Linux box. That way you can tunnel through ssh.

I've done this successfully. I had the backup script in All Users'  
startup items. If you convince your users to log out every day, this  
works well.

On the server side, I had the backups on daily rotation using the  
hard link method, and kept two week's worth of backups on not-much- 
disk-space. That was backed up fortnightly to a year's worth of backups.

I didn't get around to plugging in an annual backup because they  
didn't want to pay me any more. This was because I opposed installing  
Vista and Office 2007 as being too expensive -- "how about a trial of  
Linux and Open Office?" No, that would cost nothing, so can't be of  
any value. I can be pretty convincing, but you can't educate pork.

R.

On Aug 7, 2008, at 12:48 pm, Christopher Robbins wrote:

> I'm wondering if anyone can give me some guidance here...The subject
> sounds like a painfully stupid idea, but I don't have any ideas...
>
> I'm writing a logout script that uses rsync to sync a folder on a  
> Windows
> share.  Thing is, I need to have the user's credentials to log into  
> the Windows
> server.  Is there a better way to secure the username/password  
> combo than just
> a plain-text file in /etc?  Is there a wiser way to keep these  
> passwords secure?
>
> Any ideas/pointers would be appreciated...I've been racking my  
> brain on this one
> the past few days...
>
> TIA
>
>     - Chris
>
> -- 
> Chris Robbins
> Systems Programmer
> Department of English - University of Arizona
> http://www.homerengineeringcorp.net
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