Re: help:hide/encrypt an oracle password in a shell script

From: Michael Jessen <mjessen_at_westpac.com.au>
Date: 1997/03/21
Message-ID: <3332BB3C.3EE9@westpac.com.au>#1/1

wrote:
>
> I would appreciate if somebody can help me out
> with the following issue:
>
> I wrote a shell program that invokes Oracle's SQL*PLUS
> (eg. myid/password @sql_script.sql), but the problem
> is that ps -ef| grep sql will display the user and the
> oracle password. How can I hide the password?
>
> myid and password are passed as positional
> parameters, but I am thinking of changing it to interactive mode
> (menu-driven) so myid and password would be entered from a menu as follows:
>
> Oracle id: myid
> Password : ********
>
> the the script should invoke SQL*PLUS:
> myid/******** @sql_script.sql
>
> and ps -ef|grep sql hopefully will not show password,
>
> Thank you.
> Santiago Cabezas
> Oracle DBA
> santiago.cabezas_at_cplc.com
> Carolina Power&Light co.

You might try prepending a 'connect myid/mypasswd' to your sql_script.sql, then calling it with sqlplus /nolog @sql_script.sql,

Mike. Received on Fri Mar 21 1997 - 00:00:00 CST