Thanks.
I knew there is no security indeed.
BUT, it is our silly company policy that does not want the user name and password put in the same place in the same script.
Linux server and ksh shell script.
Don't know C or C++.
My original post had several typos as pointed out by RudiC in a private message. (The read had loginName twice instead of loginName and password and the sqlplus command had unquoted literal strings instead of quoted variable expansions.) I apologize for anyone who read this message before the corrections were made.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 09-22-2017 at 06:22 AM..
Reason: Add quotes to sqlldr command and fix other typos.
Hello,
I am very new to Unix so I want to apologize in advance in case my question is stupid.
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oldstty=`stty -g`
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read password
stty $oldstty
echo
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Patrick (1 Reply)
All,
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Hi,
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hi all,
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thanx. (1 Reply)
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