[ILUG-BOM] encryption of password

Hello Every one,

I am having one shell / perl script , through which i am doing all my server maintainance work like cleaning old logs etc. Script is running fine without any issues. But i am remotly login to almost 20 servers through this script and doing my stuffs for which i have to hardcode my user name and password (only one) in same scritp which i feel is scurity thread.

Is there any way to encrypt my password in the same script which system or script can understande but when any one else open my script not able to read that password line. Please note i am using Unix as OS and using vi editor.

Can any one please advice or guide me how to achieve this kind of encryption.

Thanks a lot for all your help and advice.

Regards, ansa