Hi. Secure External Password Store sounds like the safest bet. http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/10g/SecureExternalPasswordStore_10gR2.php Cheers Tim... On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is not exactly an Oracle question, but I am asking it here in case > someone has solved this. We have alot of jobs that log into our Oracle > databases. Some of them use ops$oracle accounts. In the future we are not > allowed to use ops$oracle and need to provide passwords. I am trying to > find a method, or program/script that allows us to do the following. > 1. store oracle passwords in unix in a lock box > 2. only given processes and users can access specific passwords > 3. program/process/script has customizable logic that only lets specific > jobs access the password. > 4. We are mainly using Cron for our jobs, but may be using some other job > schedulers in the future that have more features. > 5. you cannot access the passwords from a user account > > > basically you give the password to the script/program, etc and tell it > which jobs/users can retrieve it. Those jobs call the script/program and > the program can accurately decide which job gets which password. > > This is about all the requirements I have on this. Sorry if this is kind of > vague. > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l