Sven Aluoor wrote: > Hi folks > > I have here a CentOS box where i need to setup cronjob (with session > to remote Oracle instance). On the remote DB i have no access, expect > limited user. > > How to avoid putting passwords in shell scripts? > > The solution doesn't need to be perfect, only better than plain text > passwords in scripts. > Mostly remote host only support password authentication (no > certificates and so on). > postgresql supports a .pgpasswd file in the users home directory thats permission 600, so only the owner can access it. Maybe Oracle has something similar?