[svlug] How to sign a shell script?

[Bill Ward]

I think most people would just publish an MD5 or SHA1 hash alongside the
shell script.

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Bob Smith <bsmith at linuxtoys.org> wrote:

>
>
> Does anyone here know a simple way to sign and check
> a shell script?  Sorry to ask but I guess I could not
> guess the magic words for Google.
>
>
> The idea is to build a shell script and to sign it
> using a private key.  Send the script to a remote
> device that has a certificate for the signing key.
> If the script is authenticated using the certificate
> it gets executed.
>
> So my questions:
>  - Is there a standard way to sign a shell script?
>  - If not, is there a standard way to sign a text file?
>  - What program or Debian package does the above?
>  - How do you verify a file from the command line?
>  - How do you verify a file from within C?
>  - In the script can I hide the auth info behind '#' chars?
>
> thanks
> Bob
>
>
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