On Saturday, 26 January 2008 08:56:14 -0800, Richard England <rlengland@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote : > I'm not much help in this area but I think the OPs issue is having a > script with an embedded password. If the script has to sudo or su to > the correct environment to mount the drive and/or perform the backup > to a drive with the encryption scheme the password would be in plain > text and therefore compromised. That's basically it. Where a password is needed, then a password must be given in a script. And a password in a script - any kind of script - is in ASCII characters. > Is there any way in which running this as a user cron job might be > useful? Could cron start a job as a user with the proper access > rights? The task here is to mount an encrypted partition. Running the script as root (eg. part of a root cron job) will not help. As for me, so far I do not think it's possible. But I asked, just in case someone would pop up with a solution to this, perhaps suggestion another method to encrypt the drive that works with some kind of ACL credentials or shared key, or whatever. Cheers, Al
