I am probably not be reading enough into the question, but here are my 2 cents; just set permission to execute only with no read or write access. Ken Naim -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Radoulov, Dimitre Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 12:36 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Allowing users to execute shell scripts without seeing password Got error, trying to resend ... > I've been trying to figure out a way that I can have my users allowed > to login to the server (HP-UX) with their own account and run a shell > script that's owned my me ... > but I don't want them to be able to see the password. > I had no luck just granting them execute on the shell script, they had > to have read priviledges in order to execute it apparently. > Any suggestions?? As suggested on comp.unix shell you can use shell script compiler. You can try Francisco Javier Rosales García's shc: Home page: http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/~frosal/ Download link: http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/~frosal/sources/shc-3.8.3.tgz Regards, Dimitre -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l