Dear Friends ,

I have to write a RMAN script following way :

rman target sys/sys123 << !
run
{
allocate channel t1 type disk;
backup format 'df_%t_%s_%p'
(database);}

Now I want to write this script where I want to put my user password as "binary" format , don't want to use text format. like :

rman target sys/****** << !

Is there any way to do it or u have any ideas about this ? Or, is there any way to call the "password" from
another text file ?

Here I mention that , I dont want to use "read" option which takes the user password manually .

plz help ... ...

I don't know what rman is, so I don't understand exactly what your trying to do, but if you're trying to execute a program on a remote server,
or copy data across the network to a remote server, I highly suggest using ssh, you can set up ssh keys that will allow connection without storing a password in any file.

Here are some slides that might help:

http://linux.starkstate.net/rhartman...orking_ssh.pdf

Hey There,

Unless there's encryption and decryption involved, reading in a password any way has its risks.

If you want to call the password from a file, you could make a file called /.password (. so it's hidden, chmod 700 user = the user you want to be able to access it)

and in the script

pwd=`cat /.password`

rman target sys/$pwd

Like I said. Using this method requires that you do as much as you can to protect the file you're going to read the password from.

Hope that helps

, Mike