Re: Hiding username/password from ps

On 14 Dec 1995 14:32:24 GMT, Andy.Caiger_at_bbsrc.ac.uk (Andy Caiger) wrote:

>
>Hi,
>
>We're running SQL*Plus and SQL*Forms from Tcl-Tk scripts on Solaris
>2.4 and we've noticed that if you put the username and password on the
>command line they show up to anyone who does "ps -ef".
>
>Has anyone discovered a way round this ? It looks like sqlplus might take
>the password on the standard input, but what about runform ?
>
>Looking forward to the answer....
>
>Andy

I mostly work with batch programs and these are run in a dedicated OPS$ account and are called with a /. The password is never seen in a ps listing.

Hope this helps

Steve

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