CLI remote execution with encrypted password

[gnik9]

Hi,

I want to use the CLI remotely without the clear-text password.

I am using below right now, but want to encrypt the password. Any thoughts ?

./jboss-cli.sh --connect --controller:$HOSTNAME:9999 --user=<userid> --password=<clear-textpassword>

Thanks,

Nik

[mchoma]

If you are writing automate script and you are worried about password beeing seen in history and ps output, then you can set password from standard input

jboss-cli.sh -c <<EOF

user

password

<your commands>

EOF

In that way password won't be shown in history neither in ps output.

[gnik9]

Thanks, but i have to execute multiple batch with username password passed as the command line input because i don't want to prompt the user multiple times to input the credentials. I could do that in a shell script, by reading the user credentials and passing them to the jboss-cli.sh as a runtime value, but that will show-up in the ps output, at least for sometime and is a security concern, so don't want to do that.

There seems to be some solution at https://access.redhat.com/solutions/970773  but i'm not a registered user ..