Re: Securing passwords in scripts

If you're going to be doing DBA tasks like you describe (backups which require you to shutdown the database, etc.), you can just use "/ as sysdba" in sqlplus. This works all the way back to 7.3 as far as I know. For it to work, however, the OS account that is being used must be a member of the DBA group (Unix) or the ORA_DBA group (NT). In a UNIX script, I use it like this:

sqlplus << EOF
/ as sysdba
shutdown immediate
exit
EOF In NT, it would be a matter of putting all the commands in a .sql script and executing the script like this:

sqlplus "/ as sysdba" @myscript.sql

Hope this helps.

Jon Walthour

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 4:55 AM

> I have some scripts, O.S. command and SQL, which I use to perform COLD
> backups of DBs and other tasks. I'm not particularily happy about having
> username/password information in the scripts. Has anyone come up with a
way
> to avoid same allowing for the fact the scripts should require no user
input
> to execute.
>
>
> Sean :)
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