Re: Security Products

There is also a product called SQL<>SECURE. see http://www.sqlsecure.com/password.html

Rosemary Fleming wrote:
>
> Currently our unix scripts have the Oracle userid and password hard-coded in
> calls to SQLPLUS - for example "sqlplus system/manager". No kidding- the
> people who originally wrote the scripts did not even change the password for
> SYSTEM. As the DBA, I want the developers to change their scripts to use
> parameters for the userid and password and store the passwords in a password
> file which could only be read by root. This way, I could change the passwords
> whenever I wanted to without having to change every single script.
>
> Our Unix administrator feels that this is not secure enough - that it would be
> easy to hack in. He would like a more complete solution. He would like to know
> if there are any 3rd party products which would handle this plus other other
> Oracle issues. Can anyone tell me if they currently use such tools and what
> their experiences have been.
>
> We are running Oracle 7.2.2 on HP-UX V9 (soon to be Oracle 7.3 on HP-UX V10).
>
> Rosemary Fleming
Received on Wed Feb 26 1997 - 00:00:00 CST