NAME

encpassw.pl - Encrypts password in .ini files

DESCRIPTION

Reads the value of a property password in a configuration file ('a la' .ini style), and rewrites the value with the result of its encryption.

Style .ini configuration files are those with a syntax compatible with Config::IniFiles, and briefly this means:

• Lines beginning with # are comments and are ignored. Also, blank lines are ignored. Use this for readability purposes.

• A section name is a string (including whitespaces) between [ and ].

• Each section has one or more property/value pairs. Each property/value pair is specified with the syntax

      property=value

  One property/value pair per line.

See Config::IniFiles for detailed information about syntax.

SYNTAX

    perl encpassw.pl --inifile=<ini_file> 
                     --section=<section_name_of_ini_file_with_password_param>
                     [--key=<encryption_decryption_key> ]
                     [--cipher=<encryption_decryption_algorithm> ]

ARGUMENTS

--inifile

Name or pathname of file whose password value have to be encrypted. It doen't need to have .ini in its name.

--section

Section name in inifile where the password property is.

--key

Encryption / Decryption key in clear form. Use the same value with DBIx::PasswordIniFile.

--cipher

Name of an installed cipher algoritm. Cipher algorithms live in namespace Crypt::.

If not specified, default is Crypt::Blowfish. It must be installed.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2010-2020 Enrique Castilla.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

AUTHOR

Enrique Castilla <mailto:ecastillacontreras@yahoo.es|ecastillacontreras@yahoo.es>.