November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
126 pages
3h
English
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Hiding the password
Supplying usernames and passwords on the command line is convenient. Unfortunately, this practice poses a serious security risk. With Unix, your command line may be visible to other users on the system via the ps command. For example:
$ ps -ef | grep rman
oracle 27681 21612 3 16:54:02 pts/5 0:03 rman target /
sys/mooftYou can see in this example that the output from the ps command shows the entire rman command, including the username and password. That’s not good! Fortunately, there is a way around having your password show up in the process status output. Don’t specify connection information while at the O/S prompt, but connect after an RMAN session as been initiated. For example:
$rman nocatalogRecovery Manager: Release 9.0.1.0.0 - Production RMAN>connect target / sys/mooft@brdstnconnected to target database: BRDSTN (DBID=664610428) using target database controlfile instead of recovery catalog
Connecting to the database after RMAN has been invoked prevents any password information from showing up in a process list.
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