RE: Hiding passwords

I don't quite get that. Why can't you set a local environment variable from a script? If you could, where do you propose to get the value that you want to put into an environment variable?

At 01:59 PM 9/23/2003 -0800, you wrote:

>Paul,
>
>Any chance these scripts could be run from Cygwin, Uwin, MKS Toolkit,
>or anything that will let you use a korn shell?
>
>That would simplify things tremendously.
>
>One of the problems with Windohs is that you cannot execute a script
>or program so that it can return a value to a local environment variable.
>
>That ability would make this task simple from command.com.
>
>Another possibility is to put your passwords in the registry, restrict that
>portion of the registry, ( or the whole thing ), and use a Perl script to
>retrieve
>the passwords and kick off the other jobs.
>
>What I do in linux is use a password server ( as seen in "Perl for Oracle
>DBA's")
>and retrieve the password across the network, encrypted of course.
>
>This works on windows as well, though you're there restricted to doing this
>strictly from within the Perl script.
>
>Jared

Wolfgang Breitling
Oracle7, 8, 8i, 9i OCP DBA
Centrex Consulting Corporation
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