Hemant, Where did you find this requirement? We are having more then 20 SOX compliant databases and running our jobs as either SYSDBA on Windows and *nix as well but not seen any objection from our internal or external auditors so far... Regards Rafiq On 5/13/05, Hemant K Chitale <hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >=20 > How do you run CRON jobs {Online Backups, DB Monitoring} on Database Ser= vers > when IT Security / SOX requirements state that > a) No userid-password pairs are to be kept in plain-text in any files > b) connect / as sysdba is not to be used >=20 > I can handle a) with CRON jobs running under the "oracle" account with > "connect / as sysdba" > at the beginning of SQL scripts. I can handle b) if I hard code a > userid/password with the > appropriate privileges. How do I handle both requirements ? >=20 > Hemant K Chitale > http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hkchital >=20 > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l