Hi Amir,
On most unix systems, you can use a utility called "sudo". If it's not currently installed, it's an open source utility that can be downloaded and compiled on any unix system. You can easily setup sudo to control which users are privileged to run certain programs. Doug On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 08:36:49PM +0000, Amir Sadeghi wrote: > Hi team, > > In order to reduce to workload on the database team, we have been thinking > of allowing the testers to perform their own offline backup/restore of the > test databases on AIX. > > However, we are reluctant to give them sysadm, sysctrl, and sysmaint to let > them do a "force application all" and peform backup and restore. > > We would like to somehow encrypt the DBA password and let them run a script > that uses the DBA user id and password to peform these tasks. However, I > could not find an encryption utility for UNIX. Has anyone ever done this > kind of things? > > Any ideas are appreciated. > > Thanks > > Amir > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > - > ::: When replying to the list, please use 'Reply-All' and make sure > ::: a copy goes to the list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). > *** To unsubscribe, send 'unsubscribe' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** For more information, check http://www.db2eug.uni.cc - ::: When replying to the list, please use 'Reply-All' and make sure ::: a copy goes to the list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). *** To unsubscribe, send 'unsubscribe' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** For more information, check http://www.db2eug.uni.cc
