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How to encrypt and decrypt password in UNIX

Zone: Unix Network Security Questions

Tags: password, unix, decrypt, encrypt

I am not a unix developer but I need to do something in UNIX.
Can anyone please tell me how can I write a script to accept Password from the command line,then encrypt the password and store it into a file.I will aslo need to retrive the password from the encrypted file,decrypt it and put it in a variable which I will pass as a parameter to another script?.
Please help......

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Zone: Security

Question Asked By: Abi78

Solution Provided By: Tintin

Participating Experts: 5

Solution Grade: A

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