Re: Hiding the password in UNIX?

From: <dlane_at_cix.compulink.co.uk>
Date: 2000/05/23
Message-ID: <8ger4k$k04$1@plutonium.compulink.co.uk>#1/1

In article <8fpfhh$75tq$1_at_node17.cwnet.frontiernet.net>, scruiz_at_frontiernet.net (Stephen W Ruiz) wrote:

> Does anyone know a good way to let users use sqlplus without entering
> their
> username/password on the command line. It shows up when you grep for
> sqlplus. How do you get arround this issue. In our Sybase
> environments we
> echo a parameter to isql, but that did not work with Oracle for some
> reason.
> Thanks for your response.

There's some c source on the web somewhere called "hide.c" .... you can use this to hide parameters to a call - Create your own sqlplus script which uses this and your parameters will disappear

Dave Lane (dlane_at_pt.lu) Received on Tue May 23 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT