Re: Oracle Security in Bourne Shell and Perl Scipts

From: Sean M <smckeown_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 21:25:42 GMT
Message-ID: <3CC5D162.5028CFEB@earthlink.net>

Mahtaj Khamneian wrote:
>
> I have setup and am maintaining several shell and perl scripts to
> perform some DBA tasks. So far, I have included the sys password in the
> scripts whenever I connect to Oracle. I am now trying to find a way to
> avoid the oracle password inclusion in the scripts.
> Anyone has experience in this area?

Assuming a typical UNIX install, run your scripts as a member of the DBA group, and just "connect / as sysdba".

Regards,
Sean Received on Tue Apr 23 2002 - 16:25:42 CDT