David You could change the read permission on the script so nobody can read it. A larger issue is how to prevent other users from seeing the password while your process is executing. Connor McDonald who participates on this list has some ideas at: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/hide_password.html
Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 2:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have been tasked to write a script to run SQL. I don't want a password field to be shown in the script. Does someone have run into this and have a better idea? For example, I have following line in my script. Sqlplus dbimpl/password @SQLscript.sql Also, from command line we go through following steps to shutdown database, how do I code these steps in the script? $svrmgrl SVRMGRL>connect internal SVRMGRL>shutdown Thanks in advance, David -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Nguyen, David M INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
