Re: Encrypt sensitive passwords in shell script - Which one do you prefer ?

From: Pete Finnigan <pete_at_petefinnigan.com>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 14:47:53 +0100
Message-ID: <4DD12B09.3090500_at_petefinnigan.com>

Have a look at Oracle secure external password store - http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/10g/SecureExternalPasswordStore_10gR2.php or if you want a free solution look at OPR - http://opr.sourceforge.net

cheers

Pete

Sreejith S Nair wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I am looking for various options to encrypt a sensitive password in a
> unix shell script. After a bit of googling, I learned about 'shc'.
> Can you please advice on what things you use for this purpose, if any ?
>
> My requirement / idea is
>
> A .sql file will have to be executed by a shell script in SQLPLUS as
> USER/XXXX . The .sql file will be prepared by developer and will be put
> to a directory to which their osuser - say 'user1' will have write
> access. I will have 'oracle' user in the server , who is the DBA user. I
> want them to run this SQL like, *runthis.sh test.sql *where runthis.sh
> is owned by oracle user and will reside in some directory owned by DBA
> user. I am planning to configure schema password (USER/XXXX) in
> runthis.sh , which a developer is not supposed to know.
> But if I give execute permission for 'user1' to runthis.sh, it becomes
> readable and all can read the password. Is there anyway , I can store
> encrypted password in SQLPLUS connect string in this file / encrypt
> shell script as such ?
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
>
> With Regards,
> Sreejith
>
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> Sreejith S Nair
> Associate Systems Architect | AOS DBA Team
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