Hi Alan,

Well you do have a point! We're only setting the environment variables that
Oracle needs to be able to connect to the database - but still, you do have
a point. If there's a better way of doing this I think it could be less of a
worry for us. So if you have any suggestions we'd be most grateful.

thanks,
Sally Fetouh

>Message: 3
>From: "Alan DeKok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Exec-Program-Wait
>
>  That's called "security".  Are you *sure* that you want shell
>scripts executed with all of the login environment variables set?  The
>answer is almost always NO.
>
>  More information given to a shell script means more possibilities
>for that information to be abused to attack your system.  e.g. Sending
>User-Name with magic shell characters in it, in the hope that dumb
>scripts will use them as-is.
>
>
>  I would strongly recommend setting only the MINIMUM environment
>variables in the script.  That will make things much safer.


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