On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, fred smith wrote:
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 12:16:19AM +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, fred smith wrote:
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 03:50:51PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, fred smith wrote:
Is there some OTHER tool that is now being shipped in place of uuencode/
uudecode?
openssl
sorry, but I don't see how openssl can substitute for uudecode. I just
did a rpm -qlp against the openssl package and there's no uudecode
hiding therein, either. figured it wouldn't hurt to look... :(
I think Russ meant using:
openssl base64 -in <file>
The openssl tool can be used in many useful ways, it's not just a library
package.
Dag, I woulda never thought of that in a million years! :(
Doing that lets me ENcode a file, but so far I haven't figured out
how to use it to DEcode a file, which is really what I want most.
Any more clues for the clueless (me)??
There is a help for each of the commands, but I don't know how to activate
it properly, if you type --help it will show you (and complain that help
is not a valid command :)
In any case, to 'decrypt' you can use -d like:
openssl base64 -in /etc/passwd | openssl base64 -d
The help output is shown for each command, you can try:
openssl base64 --help
Now I wouldn't say this is a complete replacement for uuencode/uudecode,
but you can write a wrapper that provides the exact same output, or can
handle typical markers as input.
I use openssl most frequently for:
openssl passwd -1
or openssl passwd -apr1
Kind regards,
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