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General: Best way to deal with cleartext password? Specific: Cygwin/email/bash

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I'm setting up Cygwin, and one of the packages I'm using is 'email' for, what else, sending e-mail from a script. I've "improved" one of my concerns about email's configuration, by copying to a directory within my home directory, rather than editing that default config file with my settings (i.e. u…

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/etc/email/email.conf

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Fix for: General: Best way to deal with cleartext password? Specific: Cygwin/email/bash

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There are a couple different ways of dealing with this. You can hash the stored password or use part of the hash of the stored password as your password. This won't actually protect the password in any way, since the script itself will likely have t…

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