Re: Hiding ORACLE passwords

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 ?
> Tom,

Put the username/password into a file then pipe the file to sqlplus. For example, if the file joe_sql.cmd has:

username/password
_at_sql_script

you run sqlplus with "sqlplus < joe_sql.cmd" instead of "sqlplus username/password _at_sql_script"

I hope this helps.

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