Re: Aespipe and tar
You can pass your passphrase to gpg similar to what I have below. This
is an actual snip out of a script that encrypts files for me.
PGPPASS="mypassphrase"
echo $PGPPASS | gpg --batch --passphrase-fd 0 -esa -r $GPGRECIPIANT
$DATAFILE
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:28:38PM +0100, Marc Schiffbauer wrote:
> * Andrew Miehs schrieb am 02.03.06 um 16:03 Uhr:
> > Dear List,
> >
> > Is there anyway that you can make aespipe take a password from the command
> > line? I need to hand store some tapes (tar) offsite, and wanted to encrypt
> > them. I have also tried with gpg, but this also requires a password to be
> > entered when the script is run...
> >
> > Any good ideas?
>
> How about that:
>
> tar czv /etc | aespipe -p3 -eAES256 -C128 3< /etc/aespipe.pwd > etc.tgz
>
> this way you can put some chars from /dev/random into the
> password-file to make the backup have a very good passphrase.
>
> Or without password-file maybe like that:
>
> tar czv /etc/ | aespipe -p3 -eAES256 -C128 3<<EOP > etc.tgz
> myatleast20charspassword
> EOP
>
> -Marc
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