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Re: Discussion on Login/Passwords with Unix Shell Scripts

From: Mark D Powell <markp7832_at_my-deja.com>
Date: 2000/05/07
Message-ID: <8f3ag5$qq3$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1

In article <r8dve8.4a2.ln_at_320003300523-0001.dialin.t-online.de>,   320003300523_at_t-online.de wrote:
> On 05 May 2000 15:31:26 GMT, Risudi <risudi_at_aol.com> wrote:
>
> >1) Use 'Operating System Authorization' which removes the need for
 storing
> >passwords, but is more difficult to setup and maintain for new DBA's
>
> From all your proposed choices I emphasize the first.
>
> But I do not understand, why it should be more difficult to setup and
 maintain
> for new DBA's. Can you be more detailed?
>
> Dieter Rohlfing
>

You can also use a variable for the shell script username/password and pick it up from the environment. Then when you change the password in Oracle you only have to change the production user profile to match.

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