Re: Hiding ORACLE passwords

In article <4dmcvf$e5t_at_su102w.ess.harris.com>, tgillesp_at_ms13.mis.semi.harris.com says...
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>At one time I was told there was a program called hideargs that would
>hide command line arguments from showing up in the output of a 'ps'
>command, thus hiding the password. But now that I'm ready to use it,
>I can't find it, of course.
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>Does anyone know how to use this utility ? Or another way of hiding
>the password argument of sqlplus ?

I just came back from an Oracle Admin class and the instructor spoke of a program called hide.c that should be obtainable from Oracle support. Something about padding the ps output with 3000 spaces, but I prefer to key in a password when prompted or feed it with the << input in a Unix script.

-Don Received on Tue Feb 06 1996 - 00:00:00 CET