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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Password hiding in UNIX Post 302841381 by balajesuri on Wednesday 7th of August 2013 09:20:34 AM
Old 08-07-2013
May be I'm wrong; your requirement looks ambiguous to me. If you want to write the password to a file in an "invisible manner something like ******", then how good (or secure) is it, if you are able to echo the content of pwd.txt and you get the password that you actually typed?
 

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asadmin-list-connector-connection-pools

asadmin-list-connector-connection-pools(1AS)			   User Commands		      asadmin-list-connector-connection-pools(1AS)

NAME

       asadmin-list-connector-connection-pools, list-connector-connection-pools - gets all the connection pools

SYNOPSIS

       list-connector-connection-pools	--user admin_user [--password admin_password] [--host localhost] [--port 4848] [--secure |-s] [--password-
       file filename] [--terse=false] [--echo=false] [--interactive=true]

       gets all the connector connection pools. This command is supported in remote mode only.

OPTIONS

       --user		       authorized domain application server administrative username.

       --password	       password to administer the domain application server.

       --host		       machine name where the domain application server is running.

       --port		       port number of the domain application server listening for administration requests.

       --secure 	       if true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the domain application server.

       --passwordfile	       file containing the domain application server password.

       --terse		       indicates that any output data must be very concise, typically avoiding human-friendly sentences and favoring well-
			       formatted data for consumption by a script. Default is false.

       --echo		       setting to true will echo the command line statement on the standard output. Default is false.

       --interactive	       if set to true (default), only the required password options are prompted.

       Example 1: Using list-connector-connection-pools

       asadmin> list-connector-connection-pools --user admin
       --password adminadmin

EXIT STATUS

       0		       command executed successfully

       1		       error in executing the command

       asadmin-create-connector-connection-pool(1AS), asadmin-delete-connector-connection-pool(1AS)

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