Thanks to boulayp, I have it. Sometimes you just forget what you have already used. (need to use single quotes and of escape them on command line). Boulayp said \'/ as sysdba\' I did not get Remiqiusz example to work. Joel Patterson Database Administrator 904 727-2546 -----Original Message----- From: Stefano Cislaghi [mailto:s.cislaghi@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 7:53 AM To: Patterson, Joel Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: expdp without password Hi Joel, have you tried using a wallet? Look on tahiti for "Secure External Password Store" ... I've never used it with expdp but should work. Stefano -- http://www.stefanocislaghi.eu -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l