Re: Keeping Passwords Secure

From: Denis Langlais <ag831_at_FreeNet.Carleton.CA>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 01:29:47 GMT
Message-ID: <CwvAtn.E7D_at_freenet.carleton.ca>

In a previous article, Ian_at_syntaxis.demon.co.uk (Ian Dixon) says:

>
>As far as I recall (this is from home), entering a user/password on
>the command line for any Oracle program on the Sequent at work means
>that they can be seen using ps -ef. On an Ultrix box however, there
>are spaces where you would expect the un/pwd to be.
>

What I do is create an oracle id to match my unix id. For instance if my unix id is fred, I would create the Oracle id ops$fred. When I want to connect without a password I type:

sqlplus /

For non-batch jobs in which the oracle id has a password such as scott/tiger I would type

sqlplus scott
Oracle then prompts me for the password which I enter "tiger" in this case. Received on Thu Sep 29 1994 - 02:29:47 CET

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