Question

So I’m working to hide the password from the ps -aux list, or w list in linux.

I’m using rlwrap and sqlplus, connecting thusly:

rlwrap sqlplus user/pass@connect_identifier

And it shows my pass in plaintext in the who list.

Anyone know how I can make it so that it does not show the password?

Answer 1

(Answer shamelessly stolen from here)

You can invoke sqlplus with something like:

rlwrap sqlplus internal @/path/to/script

where /path/to/script contains connect user/pass@connect_identifier; and has permissions such that a normal user can’t access it.