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protecting passwords in properties


  • Subject: protecting passwords in properties
  • From: Vince Angeloni <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:00:30 -0500

I'm sticking to my suspicious scripting questions... ;  )

At any rate, I would like to use to the unix cmd 'shutdown' to bounce my kids off the computer when they exceed their time, and they don't pay attention to the more gentle system event "log out" I use previously to encourage them to get off the computer. To use this, I have to use an applescript 'with administrator privileges', so if I want this script to run on the kids' accounts, I'll need to put my admin account name and password into a property. I understand this is not secure.

I am thinking of leaving the properties empty when I compile and when the script first runs, it will ask for my admin account name and password and then place it into the property, only after having run it through the unix cmd 'openssl' to encrypt it. Thus, the property will only show the encrypted password. The password for the openssl command itself will be derived from an applescript which generates it by picking certain letters from a string of text stored in a temporary variable.

I am assuming that since this is compiled as a run-only application, the admin account password stored as a property will be encrypted and my password for openssl will be hidden in the compiled run-only applescript code. Are there any obvious holes here that I am missing?

TIA

Vince


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