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Old 01-10-2011
how to mask the password ?

Hi All,

i am executing peoplesoft sqr command from unix prompt which has the unix id/password as parameter along with other parameters. i want to show whole command in log file but want to mask the id/password field. this command i am executing in shell script. Please suggest..

>sqr sqrname id/pwd sqrflags sqr paramters
# 2  
Old 01-11-2011
I would rather suggest you make a password file at each of the users' home directory, with read write permissions only to that user (600); that file would contain ID and password of that user.

In your shell script read the password file and map the ID and password for that user.

u might have to ask every user to create a password file if they need to connect to sqr.
whichever user runs the script, that password file would be read.


hope this helps.
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Old 03-07-2011
Thanks ..let me check if that works
 
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