thanks, Ken _____ From: David Sharples [mailto:davidsharples@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:45 PM To: kennaim@xxxxxxxxx Cc: cichomitiko@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Allowing users to execute shell scripts without seeing password thats been tried, you need read acess to execute it was proved to me a few posts back) On 2/17/06, Ken Naim <kennaim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 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.