I know "encrypt" isn't the right description here. It's more like trying to "obfuscate" or "scramble" a password in a plaintext shell script. Say you have a UNIX shell script that does FTP to Windows ...

To change a password in Linux through a Bash script, he two scripts that are most important are 'Create Users' and 'Change Passwords Shell' scripts, for the system admin which regularly uses the mail ...

Basic ways you can use shell scripts to monitor password strength and secret accounts. The internet ain't what it used to be back in the old days. I remember being online back when it was known as ...