RE: Hiding passwords

2003-09-23 Thread PSherman
Tom, As Dave Barry would say, Har! Unfortunately, we are talking about 3rd-party people who have the 'right' to log in for support (debugging their ^%(^#@ products, and installing updates). I've got them under local admin accounts (as opposed to domain accounts), so they can only get to their ow

Re: Hiding passwords

2003-09-23 Thread PSherman
Hello, If you do that in Win2k, then you have more env variables for 'authorized' people to see when they do a SET . Now, to be frank, I have an ulterior (a 'maxed-out' interior or exterior) motive in this reply. I have yet to see an intelligent  (never mind elegant) of protecting system variabl

RE: Congratulations Arup (DBA of the Year)

2003-08-29 Thread PSherman
Then suggested names should closely follow: Guild of Oracle Professionals (GOP, or GOOP, depending on how you feel about it) Current Organization for the Working Finestkind Learned Oracle Professionals (COWFLOP; esp. big in Maine and Montana) Institute for the National Advancement of the Guild of

Re: Oracle World anyone?

2003-08-15 Thread PSherman
Jared et al, I was just told by my new boss that I have to have any requests for any conferences/shows in by Sept. 5th (his budget deadline). It's been years since I worked for a company that would pay for me to go anywhere, so, for 2004, what would you (or others on the list) recommend? It'd pro