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Special Forums Cybersecurity how to Hide Passwords From UNIX ps Command Post 302353516 by methyl on Tuesday 15th of September 2009 01:21:19 PM
Old 09-15-2009
For Oracle, one way is to store the program in a file and get Oracle to execute it.

Code:
sqlplus /NOLOG @programname.sql

Within the file programname.sql the first line will be an Oracle "CONNECT" statement, for example:
connect SYS/change_on_install as SYSDBA ;


This method is really the normal way and by having the program in a file avoids the clash with shell from characters such as "$" .
Don't forget to protect the file from prying eyes with unix permissions.
Last edited by methyl; 09-15-2009 at 02:46 PM.. Reason: ;
 

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sql::reservedwords::oracle

SQL::ReservedWords::Oracle(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   SQL::ReservedWords::Oracle(3pm)

NAME

       SQL::ReservedWords::Oracle - Reserved SQL words by Oracle

SYNOPSIS

	  if ( SQL::ReservedWords::Oracle->is_reserved( $word ) ) {
	      print "$word is a reserved Oracle word!";
	  }

DESCRIPTION

       Determine if words are reserved by Oracle Database.

METHODS

       is_reserved( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either Oracle7, Oracle8i, Oracle9i or Oracle10g.

       is_reserved_by_oracle7( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by Oracle7.

       is_reserved_by_oracle8( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by Oracle8i.

       is_reserved_by_oracle9( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by Oracle9i.

       is_reserved_by_oracle10( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by Oracle10g.

       reserved_by( $word )
	   Returns a list with Oracle versions that reserves $word.

       words
	   Returns a list with all reserved words.

EXPORTS

       Nothing by default. Following subroutines can be exported:

       is_reserved
       is_reserved_by_oracle7
       is_reserved_by_oracle8
       is_reserved_by_oracle9
       is_reserved_by_oracle10
       reserved_by
       words

SEE ALSO

       SQL::ReservedWords

       <http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/>

AUTHOR

       Christian Hansen "chansen@cpan.org"

COPYRIGHT

       This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.8.8							    2008-03-28					   SQL::ReservedWords::Oracle(3pm)
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