[Q] about hiding command line password in UNIX
Date: 1998/03/26
Message-ID: <351A9112.34FF_at_sabre.com>#1/1
Hi Folks,
When invoking SQL scripts with parameters (&1,&2...), from the operating
system, I specify the parameters on the command line. Since some of the
scripts have several 'CONNECT' statements, I pass passwords
of user accounts.
In Unix the command to check process information, ps -ef, displays
the programs currently executing and there I see my program with the
password, which I entered on the command line.
Is there a way by which I could suppress, by specifying a password file
which sqlplus executable will look for to match a user account. A very
similar example would be, the command ftp which looks for file '.netrc'
to connect to a remote machine when invoked using 'here documents', in a
shell program.
Any suggestion is very much appreciated. Thanks.
-Poorna Prakash
Oracle DBA
Received on Thu Mar 26 1998 - 00:00:00 CET