1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm calling a program with a command line arguement containing a password. while the process is running anyone on the system can ps -ef and see the password. Is there a way to prevent this from happening. example PROGRAM USERNAME/PASSWD I've also tried PROGRAM `cat passfile` ... (7 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Any have know how to hide the user/password paramters when doing a ps -ef when running sqlplus username/password@db from a script. (2 Replies)

3. IP Networking

Is there anyone who knows how to hide an IP from being logged by the site you are visiting. I know of some paid companies but I am looking for a different solution. Is there some way in UNIX to mask the ip. Help this is urgent. Datopdog (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, We need ur advice,... We are integrating our application (oracle) with OID,and OID is with another team. While integrating they have to provide their 'ADMIN-password' when the script prompts ,But the password they are about type is visible. If this is the case they are denying it,.... Is... (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am executing commands as follows in Bourne shell script. Filenames/directory names for the deletion/copying are unknown: rm * rmdir <directory> cp -p * <directory> Sometimes when no file or directory exists, error is encountered. This has no impact or whatever issue to my script but it's... (5 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a directory i want to just hide this directory. Could you please tell me the command to hide directory. (2 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello. A bit of a puzzle here: I have a 3rd party executable, which requires the following parameters: parm1 = program_name, parm2=userid/password, parm3=additional flags. We tried passing password as a variable, but you can do grep, and see what the password actually is I found a bit... (2 Replies)

8. Programming

class B { public: void fns(void){//base def;} }; class D:public B { public: void fns(void) {//new def;} }; I was thinking the above is overriding but somewhere else i found the above is just hiding.Only virtual functions can be considered as overriding? This is the exact statement ... (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

i have several boxes running either ubuntu, redhat or solaris. there are multiple people with root access on these boxes. i really dont like people looking through my command history, is there a way i can prevent this? what files do i have to edit to prevent anyone from being able to see what... (7 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys, I use STTY command to make the password invisible. Now I need to write the password into another file pwd.txt, but in an invisible manner, something like ******. Another thing is to when I echo the content of pwd.txt I get the password I actually typed. Thanks guys. Help me out. (5 Replies)