see //www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/hide-sqlplus-pwd <//www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/hide-sqlplus-pwd> Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:40 PM, 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 > > >