ex encrypted script

[Adam Shostack]

Jason Rentz wrote:

| Forgive me if this is a stupid question.

Hmmm.  Will you pay us?

| I'm using AT&T unix Version 5 release 3.2.2  ( UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2)
[...]

| 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

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