Re: database password

On May 16, 8:31 am, me <ma8..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i have hundereds of scripts with 'sqlplus user/pass_at_database' and i
> need to find a way to prevent online users seeing the password ( ps -
> ef | grep sqlplus ).
>
> changing scripts is not possible and all scripts run in a scheduler
> with secure Unix user.
>
> i am tempted to create an alias for sqlplus but i would like to hear
> about alternatives.
>
> thanks
> Michael

Sure you can't sed all the scripts to
sqlplus
'
user/pass_at_database'
(all on one line, of course)?

Well, I suppose you could do that with the alias. Don't you need a way to change the passwords periodically anyways?

jg

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