Re: How to alter user using variable

Question

I need to reset all Oracle default accounts to a custom password in one of our databases (11.1.0.7). I am using two files:
File 1 called mydb.sh
This file is Solaris shell script to run sql file. Here is the content:
#!/bin/bash
cd $HOME
. ./agsdb
sqlplus "/as sysdba"<<EOF
start /h/bin/mydb.sql
exit
EOF
if [$? !=0 ]; then
echo "Error, mydb.sh did not run"
     echo "Exiting."
     exit 1
fi
echo "********** mydb.sh is complete **********"And here is file2 mydb.sql
This file has content similar this the following:
>
alter user anonymous identified by password;
alter user oracle_ocm identified by password;
alter user DI identified by password;
alter user system identified by password;
Our problem is we don't want to use the password in plain text. To get arround, we will pass the password as a variable instead of the plain password text.
Maybe something like this:
alter user anonymous identified by variable_name;How can I mitigate this by passing this variable from solaris to sqlplus?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Alex wrote:
01. Create a procedure to get the username and password and then alter that user. For this you can use synamic sql
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE (username VARCHAR2, password VARCHAR2)
IS
BEGIN
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'ALTER USER '||username||' IDENTIFIED BY ||password;
END;
I have already dealt with the above. My problem is how to get the procedure to pass the password in variable as you mentioned below:
02. Then in your shell script call that procedure by passing username and password variables..