As a matter of fact even the RDA 3.12 doc had :
Special notes on userids and passwords
As a means of providing higher security when using RDA, RDA 3.11
and higher will no longer store the password in plain text in the
setup.txt file. As a result, RDA will prompt for the password when
running RDA.sh. RDA.sh could prompt for the password more than once
depending on the options chosen during the setup of RDA.
RDA 3.12 performs OS authentication which eliminates having to enter a
password for database information gathering. RDA 3.12 also accepts the
"/" as a username to avoid entering a password when RDA is
gathering database information.
If you are currently executing RDA at regularly scheduled intervals via
cron, you may need to adjust your cron jobs accordingly.
With versions 3.03 through 3.10 of RDA, the default option is
not
to store the password in plain text in the setup.txt file, but to prompt
the user for the password when RDA is started. You still have the option
of storing the password as plain text in the setup.txt file, should you
so desire.
Starting with version 3.03 of RDA, you may now indicate if the userid
provided is a SYSDBA user. However, RDA does not support specifying
/ as the username.
At 05:23 AM Wednesday, Paul Drake wrote:
if interested, see Metalink
Note:314422.1.
"As a means of providing higher security when using RDA,
passwords are no longer stored in plain text in the setup.txt file. As
result, RDA prompts for the required passwords when collecting the
data."
Pd
Hemant K Chitale
http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hkchital
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