Sensitive data in init scripts
- by Steve Jorgensen
I'm adapting some examples I've found by Googling to build an init script to run a VirtualBox OSE virtual machine as a daemon. I would like to specify a password for VNC access to the VM, and this must be given as an argument to the VBoxHeadless command.
Conventionally, init scripts are readable by standard users, and this seems like a useful…