Sean,
Not sure how you'd do this on NT, since I don't know how the "identified
externally" accounts work on NT.
On Unix you can create a user in the database with the same name as one of
the Unix accounts. Default is "ops$"<username>, you can change or remove the
"ops$" requirement via one of the init.ora commands -- (remote_<something or
other>, I'm at home right now and no access to look it up)
grant the privileges necessary to this account, then when you need to log
into the database you can use / to enter username/password:
ex. sqlplus "/"
and run what you need from cron from this Unix account.
Rachel
>From: "O'Neill, Sean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Securing passwords in scripts
>Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 00:55:28 -0800
>
>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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