UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All,

i am executing peoplesoft sqr command from unix prompt which has the unix id/password as parameter along with other parameters. i want to show whole command in log file but want to mask the id/password field. this command i am executing in shell script. Please suggest..

>sqr sqrname id/pwd sqrflags sqr paramters

I would rather suggest you make a password file at each of the users' home directory, with read write permissions only to that user (600); that file would contain ID and password of that user.

In your shell script read the password file and map the ID and password for that user.

u might have to ask every user to create a password file if they need to connect to sqr.
whichever user runs the script, that password file would be read.


hope this helps.

Thanks ..let me check if that works