-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 02:47 PM 12/21/95 -0600, you wrote:

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| Is there a way to encrypt a script yet still allow it to be runnable? I | know that the simple answer is to write it in C and compile it but I don't | have the means of doing that at the moment. (i.e. there is not compiler on | the system) | | I thought of a few simple protections but they all involve decrypting before | running.

Ever hear of chmod? chown? Adam

The vendor also has superuser access.. chmod chown won't protect it.. :(

Because I am treading in unfamiliar waters, I will just throw this one on the table, leaving the discussion to the big boys. Have you considered sudo? I really am not familiar with its capabilities, so easy with the flames :^> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMNpB5Y8AYvAI/GnhAQFx5gP/Ue+KaBLC7gOkH6qFEBKvrKIyvsmObUWU fvJv59OW4hY+/hCFfqvio3+7wQhwgImin7uEU3gIz+O5hLBRnjhknCqqdmxVPH1F XuwJSrSdmuLxyRgrSeSc/b2f93Mvu+2cD8VQb0h6QBwe7vfTFNwMqwfcS0a76r2x lC8IOMH88K8= =cIYu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 02:47 PM 12/21/95 -0600, you wrote:

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| Is there a way to encrypt a script yet still allow it to be runnable? I | know that the simple answer is to write it in C and compile it but I don't | have the means of doing that at the moment. (i.e. there is not compiler on | the system) | | I thought of a few simple protections but they all involve decrypting before | running.

Ever hear of chmod? chown? Adam

The vendor also has superuser access.. chmod chown won't protect it.. :(

Because I am treading in unfamiliar waters, I will just throw this one on the table, leaving the discussion to the big boys. Have you considered sudo? I really am not familiar with its capabilities, so easy with the flames :^> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMNpB5Y8AYvAI/GnhAQFx5gP/Ue+KaBLC7gOkH6qFEBKvrKIyvsmObUWU fvJv59OW4hY+/hCFfqvio3+7wQhwgImin7uEU3gIz+O5hLBRnjhknCqqdmxVPH1F XuwJSrSdmuLxyRgrSeSc/b2f93Mvu+2cD8VQb0h6QBwe7vfTFNwMqwfcS0a76r2x lC8IOMH88K8= =cIYu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---====<jeffg@hiwaay.net>====--- Finger for PGP key & Geek Code * No lemurs were harmed creating this sig. "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein