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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Password Obscuring Technique Post 302773745 by DGPickett on Thursday 28th of February 2013 03:47:24 PM
Old 02-28-2013
Run each different login and query/report in a new or parallel sqlplus to a different scrolling file. It's easier to maintain.

The trick with very flexible tools, and UNIX is that and more, is, you 'can', but sometimes you 'should not'! Features get put in by committee, demanded by rich idiots, installed by money grubbing developers like me, but nobody says you have to use them!
 

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cvm-sql(7)						 Miscellaneous Information Manual						cvm-sql(7)

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cvm-sql - CVM SQL Framework QUERY SUBSTITUTION
$VAR and ${VAR} are replaced with the quoted value of the environment variable named VAR. Use the second form when VAR contains anything other than alpha-numeric or underscore (_) characters. Do not include quotes in the query. The variables account and domain contain the account and domain names given by the CVM client. $$ is replaced with a single dollar sign. QUERY RESULTS
The query must produce the following fields exactly in order. All required fields must not be null or empty. 1. Password, encrypted with crypt(3) (required) 2. Actual account name (required) 3. User ID (integer) (required) 4. Group ID (integer) (required) 5. Directory (required) 6. Real name (optional) 7. Login shell (optional) 8. Group name (optional) 9. Domain name (optional) 10. System account name (optional) 11. System account directory (optional) 12. Mailbox path (optional) DEFAULT QUERY
SELECT password, username, userid, groupid, directory, realname, shell, groupname, domain, sys_username, sys_directory FROM accounts WHERE username=$account AND domain=$domain SEE ALSO
cvm-mysql(8), cvm-pgsql(8), cvm-pwfile(8), cvm-qmail(8), cvm-unix(8), cvm-vmailmgr(8), cvm-benchclient(8), cvm-checkpassword(8), cvm-test- client(8) http://untroubled.org/cvm/cvm.html cvm-sql(7)
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