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Operating Systems Solaris Encrypting or maksing password in cron Post 302909660 by Peasant on Friday 18th of July 2014 06:24:40 AM
Old 07-18-2014
You cannot stop root user of being root.

If you have password in file on the server in question, the administrator will know it, possibly other users based on file permissions.

I would recommend using other auth mechanisms for your application (like Kerberos or alike) *AND* having some sort of auditing on the application side in database, so if shit hits the fan, you will know who started it based on audit logs.

On Solaris you might configure auditing for a certain call or script execution which will notify who started what in which time. I am unfamiliar with AIX in this regard, but i'm sure there are similar auditing methods on IBM.

You should also take into consideration that auditing can be very intensive on machines and databases, depending on the depth of auditing.

Hope that helps
Regards
Peasant.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

atq

atq(1)								   User Commands							    atq(1)

NAME

       atq - display the jobs queued to run at specified times

SYNOPSIS

       atq [-c] [-n] [username]...

DESCRIPTION

       The  atq  utility  displays the at jobs queued up for the current user. at(1) is a utility that allows users to execute commands at a later
       date. If invoked by a user with the solaris.jobs.admin authorization, atq will display all jobs in the queue.

       If no options are given, the jobs are displayed in chronological order of execution.

       When an authorized user invokes atq without specifying username, the entire queue is displayed; when a username is  specified,  only  those
       jobs belonging to the named user are displayed.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -c    Displays the queued jobs in the order they were created (that is, the time that the at command was given).

       -n    Displays only the total number of jobs currently in the queue.

FILES

       /var/spool/cron/atjobs	 spool area for at jobs.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       at(1), atrm(1), auths(1), cron(1M), auth_attr(4), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    13 Aug 1999 							    atq(1)
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