How about creating a limited user account. Put the password in a file
owned and readable only by that account, and then making the Perl
script setuid to that user, and have it read from the file.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Jason Dixon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason@dixongroup.net">jason@dixongroup.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:41:27AM -0700, Rod Clayton wrote:<br>
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> I have a perl script that I would like people to be able to run but not read. It has an Oracle user ID and a password in the script. I have tried making it execute only, but then they get a permission denied when they try to run the script.<br>
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> Is there a better way to handle This?<br>
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Chown it to a secure user with 700 perms. Give them sudo rights only to run the<br>
script as that user.<br>
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Jason Dixon<br>
DixonGroup Consulting<br>
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