From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Wed Aug 31 09:32:14 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7VEWD2T004938 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:32:13 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7VEWAIP004923 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:32:10 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 8F7D31E7EAD; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:32:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10802-03; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:32:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 150C41E7D3A; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:32:05 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050831222820.01f9e030@pop.singnet.com.sg> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:30:01 +0800 To: bdbafh@gmail.com, "oracle-l@freelists.org" From: Hemant K Chitale Subject: Re: new RDA v4.0 announced In-Reply-To: <910046b4050830142394a1010@mail.gmail.com> References: <910046b4050830142394a1010@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" X-archive-position: 24809 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: hkchital@singnet.com.sg Precedence: normal Reply-To: hkchital@singnet.com.sg X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE, MIME_HTML_ONLY autolearn=no version=2.63
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

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