Re: Password Sync Oracle/Unix within Oracle proc?

From: Steve Howard <stephen.howard_at_us.pwcglobal.com>
Date: 23 Nov 2004 12:52:48 -0800
Message-ID: <6d8b7216.0411231252.d55b349@posting.google.com>

joel-garry_at_home.com (Joel Garry) wrote in message news:<91884734.0411221352.d84385c_at_posting.google.com>...
> Mike Dodd <doddme_at_-remove-mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<3abod.26603$NC6.18210_at_newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net>...
> > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:06:30 -0600, Sybrand Bakker wrote
> > (in article <tn1vp0139m8b4t0gfd3jdkl87e9jo0udp9_at_4ax.com>):
> >
> > > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:19:06 -0600, Mike Dodd
> > > <doddme_at_-remove-mindspring.com> wrote:
> > >
> There is a program your sysadmins probably know about called sudo.
> You could write a shell script to run passwd, and submit it to sudo to
> actually run,
> jg

If IIRC, on most *nixes, you can't directly submit to passwd for security reasons. I do remember a tool however called expect, that allowed you to wrap a command such as passwd in it.

Regards,

Steve Received on Tue Nov 23 2004 - 14:52:48 CST