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Thank you all for your quick reply.

Victor


On 5/21/07, Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso-rubytalk / dessyku.is-a-geek.org> wrote:
>
> "Victor Reyes" <victor.reyes / gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Team,
>
> > Is there a way in which I can write the batch file in Ruby and hide or
> > somehow encrypt the password, so even if someone edits the file the
> password
> > can't be understood?
>
> Don't store password on file. If a program can decrypt it, someone can
> decrypt it. Put the password in your head, don't write it down.
>
> Do yourself a favour by creating authenticating using either RSA or
> DSA. Read:
> http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60/htmldoc/Chapter8.html#pubkey-puttygen
>
> After you have put the public key on the remote servers, you can use
> the following batch file in your desktop to prompt you for password
> for the private key:
>
> start "" "pageant.exe" "my_key.ppk"
>
> Put that under your start-up folder so you'll be prompted for the
> password to unlock your private key at the beginning of your desktop
> session. The password should come from your memory as you only need to
> remember one password.
>
> After pageant starts, you can connect to all 120 servers without
> further password prompting.
>
> YS.
>
>

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