[Samba] Security with SMBClient
Christian Barth
barth at cck.uni-kl.de
Wed Jan 30 10:59:17 GMT 2002
> Hello,
>
> I want to do file copy from one machine to another
> using SMBclient using cron. I want this to be secure,
> but I have to put the actual password into the
> crontab,
> which, of course gets spit out in the cron logs:
>
> 00 1 * * * smbclient \\\\myserver\\myshare mypassword
> -U myuser -c 'cd \mydirectory;prompt;put myfile;'
edit /etc/syslog.conf to get cron to only log errors and not every
job. Or let cron log to /dev/null. Restart syslogd
Christian
>
> Notice that mypassword will of course always be
> repeated in the logs. Can someone help me with this
> problem? Is there a more secure way to do this?
>
> Thank you for any help.
>
> Sanjay
>
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