Encrypting passwords when triggering jobs via shellscript

yaminids · Post by **yaminids** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:57 pm

Hello friends,

We use Espresso to schedule all our jobs by triggering them via shellscripts.The problem is that the passwords are appearing in clear text in the logs of Espresso.
Is there a way to encrypt passwords when triggering the jobs through shellscripts?

Thanks a lot in advance
Yamini

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:09 am

You could use encrypted environment variables.

yaminids · Post by **yaminids** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:09 pm

Thanks for the info Ray
One more question: How can I mask the DataStage userid who is running the job

Thanks
Yamini

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:34 pm

'Mask the userid' in what sense? They will still own the PIDs generated and show up on any kind of process scan or query, so I'd be suprised if it's possible. But then I've been surprised before.

yaminids · Post by **yaminids** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:47 pm

Craig,

I was mistaken. I thought that passwords would be displayed in clear in the scheduling tool
Anyway, I have encrypted all the passwords in environment variables

Thanks
Yamini