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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers New Approach Hiding login password from ps -ef Post 302308633 by simonsimon on Sunday 19th of April 2009 08:56:35 PM
Old 04-19-2009
Question New Approach Hiding login password from ps -ef

Hello all ,
I looked up this site for solutions to hide login info from ps -ef | grep like using a seperate file and store the password in that especially for oracle sqlplus scripts.

I just got this thought , But dont know how to implement this in UNIX.

Is there a way to revoke access from "ps" command so that the user may not be even able to use ps command.



This is a non oracle unix user.
How would I do this in HP UX ?

Thanx
 

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NWBPVALUES(8)							    nwbpvalues							     NWBPVALUES(8)

NAME
nwbpvalues - Print a NetWare Bindery Propery's contents SYNOPSIS
nwbpvalues [ -h ] [ -S server ] [ -U user name ] [ -P password | -n ] [ -C ] [ -o object name ] [ -t type ] [ -p property ] [ -v ] [ -c ] DESCRIPTION
nwbpvalues prints the contents of a SET property. nwbpvalues looks up the file $HOME/.nwclient to find a file server, a user name and possibly a password. See nwclient(5) for more informa- tion. Please note that the access permissions of $HOME/.nwclient MUST be 600 for security reasons. OPTIONS
-h -h is used to print out a short help text. -S server server is the name of the server you want to use. -U user user is the user name to use for login. -P password password is the password to use for login. If neither -n nor -P are given, and the user has no open connection to the server, nwbpvalues prompts for a password. -n -n should be given if no password is required for the login. -C By default, passwords are converted to uppercase before they are sent to the server, because most servers require this. You can turn off this conversion by -C. -o object name The name of the object to be looked up. -t object type The type of the object. Object type must be specified as a decimal value. Common values are 1 for user objects, 2 for group objects and 3 for print queues. Other values are allowed, but are usually used for specialized applications. -p property The name of the property to be printed. -v For set values, this lists the object id and type of each set member in addition to the object's name. Without this flag, only the name is listed. -c Use canonical output, to be used with nwbpset. AUTHORS
nwbpvalues was written by Volker Lendecke with the corresponding Caldera utility in mind. See the Changes file of ncpfs for other contribu- tors. nwbpvalues 7/9/1996 NWBPVALUES(8)
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