Question : sqlplus connection and password

Hi  oracle and unix Gurus
I have an issue where oralce sqlplus is being called from unix k shell. we have our login credentials for sqllplus in our .profile as environment variable defined as
LOGIN=oracle_user/password@oracle_sid; export LOGIN

and this is being used by all the k shells that needs to call sqlplus as in test_call_sqlplus.ksh as
sqlplus -s $LOGIN << EOF
execute
EOF

when we execute test_sqlplus.ksh and put them in background and then do
ps -ef |grep tty1
we see the password showing up as
sqlplus -s oracle_user/password@oracle_sid

This is clear violation as everyone can see the passwd. Is there anyway to hide this info..

Answer : sqlplus connection and password

Hi,

Instead of having a environment variable, you can have a script suchas as connect.sql  that does:
connect oracle_user/password@oracle_sid

sqlplus -s /nolog << EOF
start connect.sql
execute
EOF

You can the connect.sql file permissions so that other users cannot read it.

But as said garysadler OS authentication can be better.

Regards,
Franck.