Re: ? Passing userid/password

In article 68s_at_uk.ac.brookes, p0070621_at_oxford-brookes.ac.uk (Tommy Wareing) writes: Stuff deleted ...
>Under our version of Unix (SunOS version something), using there is
>an option on ps (e to be precise) to display all the enviroment variables
>available to a process.
>
>***HAVING THE PASSWORD AS AN ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE IS NOT SAFE***
>
>This may not be the case under other OS's, but do you really want to
>risk this?
>
>Either use an OPS$ username, or make it a user exit (which will give
>you the most flexability anyway).
>
Also not secure in a SQL*Net environment. I can create a user on my machine with your userid and use that to log into your OPS$ account on your machine (or any other come to that).

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Regards,
David TvE

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