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 algoritma live in namespace Crypt::.

Default is Crypt::Blowfish_PP. If not specified, it must be installed.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2005-2008 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>.