[Samba] Security with SMBClient

[Christian Barth]

> 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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