Re: Hiding ORACLE passwords
From: Steve Preisach <steve_at_mailhost.gate.net>
Date: 1996/01/19
Message-ID: <NEWTNews.822076971.28616.steve_at_excal.gate.net>#1/1
Date: 1996/01/19
Message-ID: <NEWTNews.822076971.28616.steve_at_excal.gate.net>#1/1
> In article <4dmcvf$e5t_at_su102w.ess.harris.com>,
> tgillesp_at_ms13.mis.semi.harris.com (Tom Gillespie) wrote:
> >At one time I was told there was a program called hideargs that would
> >hide command line arguments from showing up in the output of a 'ps'
> >command, thus hiding the password. But now that I'm ready to use it,
> >I can't find it, of course.
> >
> >Does anyone know how to use this utility ? Or another way of hiding
> >the password argument of sqlplus ?
> >
Another good alternative is to use the OPS$ logon. By creating an Oracle
account called OPS$unixuser (where unixuser is the unix account name)
that user connects to Oracle using '/' as the userid/password.
Received on Fri Jan 19 1996 - 00:00:00 CET