Hi Sven, As martin had mentioned you can use Oracle Secure password store, where in you can create a wallet. I have implemented this at a client side and it worked without any issues. You can check out post detailing setup steps http://askdba.org/weblog/2009/09/using-oracle-wallet-to-execute-shell-scriptcron-without-hard-coded-oracle-database-password/ Cheers Amit http://askdba.org/weblog/ On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Sven Aluoor <aluoor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi folks > > I have here a Solaris box where i need to setup cronjob (with session > to remote DB). On the remote DB i have no access, expect limited user > via sqlplus. > > How to avoid putting passwords in shell scripts? > > cheers > Sven > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >