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Rich Headrick wrote:
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> How do surpass the ps -ef | grep <user>/<passwd>. Is there a way to
> pass a variable that doesn't show up using ps -ef?
>
> Please emial.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rich
What you can do is to pad out the command line with lots of spaces before the username / password so that it goes off the end of the screen and you can't see it when you do a ps -ef.
For example :
sqlplus system/password
hope that helps
Nisar Received on Thu Apr 10 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT
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