Re: Shell Scripts/PW Security

From: John P. Higgins <jh33378_at_deere.com>
Date: 1996/11/27
Message-ID: <329BC09A.7FA8@deere.com>#1/1

John Hough wrote:
>
> I have a series of database performance tuning scripts that we would
> like to run from a particular machine against remote instances. If
> we were running these online we could issue the command:
>
> sqlplus username/password_at_remote_sqlservice @sqlscript_to_run
>

You should be aware of the security hole involved in using a password on the command line -- the ps -ef command will reveal the password to any user on your machine!

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Received on Wed Nov 27 1996 - 00:00:00 CST