1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello everyone, i am new to unix and still learning about different commands. Can some one tell me how can i hide my directory name. For instance someone is logged in a directory named $ . I've seen some people hiding their above path name by just one word or letter like $ in order to keep... (7 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, i have a perl script for my users to run. My sys admin created an account for the users to log in and execute the script. They just type "perl myscript.pl" at the unix prompt to run it. Is there any way that i can hide my script? ,ie, do not allow my users to view the script. either... (5 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

All, In my script I am calling another script.. in that script I need to enter a password. Problem is that everyone is able to see the password when I enter that. Is there any way that when i enter that password it should not display or may look like *******. Or if there any other way that I... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

hello everybody, i would like to hide visibility of the folders , i.e. not to giving any physically visibility to any users . Is there any way to do it other than changing the permission and adding "." post folder name . by changing the permission , we cann't do any activity , but have... (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi friends, I want (a C++ code) to hide process in kernel 2.6, I don't want monitoring even in /proc. please help me. Regards, Eilya (3 Replies)

6. Cybersecurity

Hi, By reporting the process status with ps, any Unix user will see the command line arguments #ps -ef UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD lsc 13837 13825 0 May 11 pts/17 0:01 -ksh oracle 4698 6294 0 12:00:40 ? 0:00 sqlplus -s system/manager appluser 4229 4062 0 12:00:03... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm listing the files in a particular directory using the ls command... $ ls -ogh total 9.4G -rw-r--r-- 1 1.9G Nov 4 02:29 file1.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 1.9G Nov 11 03:11 file2.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 1.9G Nov 18 02:55 file3.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 1.9G Nov 25 03:11 file4.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 1.9G Dec 2 02:46... (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I've been using various versions of UNIX and Linux since 1993, and I've never run across one that showed your password as you type it in when you log in, or one that stored passwords in plain text rather than encrypted. I'm writing a script for work for a security audit, and two of the... (5 Replies)

9. Programming

Hi, I need to somehow pipe the password to a command and run some SQL, for example, something like echo $password | sqlplus -s system @query01.sql To make it not so obvious, I decided to try out writing a small C program that basically just do echo $password. So now I just do x9.out | sqlplus... (8 Replies)