Re: Hide Password in SQL Plus
Date: 1996/09/17
Message-ID: <s6aloe9gvzy.fsf_at_muffin.nist.gov>#1/1
In article <3238C8B9.7537_at_wwa.com> Alexander Lyakhovetsky <alexl_at_wwa.com> writes:
We are using sqlplus in shell scripts. In order to connect to a database, we have to pass connect string but password becomes visibale if you run ps command. Is there any way to hide password from ps command?
Here is a couple of lines from our script.
CONNECT=dbid/password
sqlplus $CONNECT
For a nice paper on ways to effectively hide passwords, read:
Libes, D., "Handling Passwords with Security and Reliability in Background Processes", Proceedings of the Eighth USENIX System Administration Conference (LISA VIII), pp. 57-64, San Diego, CA, September 19-23, 1994.
http://www.cme.nist.gov/msid/pubs/libes94d.ps
Don Received on Tue Sep 17 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST