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From: bernd@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Bernd Gill)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Accessing ORACLE from a diskless workstation
Message-ID: <1989Aug3.034215.26877@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 3 Aug 89 03:42:15 GMT
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Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
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We are running an Oracle database on a server (called "depot", an HP370
running HPUX). A number of diskless workstations (HP340's) are served
over TCP/IP.

If I am logged on to a diskless workstation the only way to connect to
the database on the server is:
	sqlplus username/password@T:depot:A

This works fine, but if anybody else who is logged on to the same
workstation runs "ps -ef" my password is displayed.
This is an unacceptable security risk.

Does anybody know a different way to connect to the database without
having the password on the command line?

I have tried a few things but only with the password on the command line
the connection is made.

Thanks very much for any help,
		Bernd
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Bernd Gill				Dept. of Computer Science
					Victoria University of Wellington
Email: bernd@comp.vuw.ac.nz		Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
					Phone: +64 4 721-000 x8658