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Re: Hiding export/import passwords

From: Nuno Souto <dbvision_at_iinet.net.au>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 07:38:33 +0800
Message-ID: <1146785913.445a907992423@mail.iinet.net.au>


Quoting Wolfson Larry - lwolfs <lawrence.wolfson_at_acxiom.com>:

> Anyone have suggestions or a technique to code exp/imp so password is
> not stored on server for cron job?
>

ops$ is not terribly secure, so we just code the password in the parameter file, dedicate a OS user to this process and make all files -and directories - readable only by that user.

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Nuno Souto
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Received on Thu May 04 2006 - 18:38:33 CDT

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