> According to Brazner, Bob:
> >
Subject:
> >                                                   Regular output of
figures
> >                                                   from ADSM
> >
Attachment(s):
> >                                                   <font size=-1></font>
> > Steven,
> >
> > On Unix, I use the following technique to prevent passwords from being
seen
> > in my scripts.
> >
> > 1) Create a file whose sole contents is a single record containing the
> > password.  (Let's call the file "passfile").
> > 2) Protect the password file from being seen by anybody but you or the
user
> > under which your script will run. (e.g., chmod 600 passfile).
> > 3) Have the ADSM commands in your script dynamically pull the password
> > value from the password file as neeed.  See next line for sample
command.
> > dsmadmc  -id=YourAdsmID  -pa=$(cat passfile)  'query process'
> >
>
>
>   Another technique to hide admin-id and admin-password
>
>   1) create an ADSM parameter file "include_my_adsm_parmfile"
>      which contains a lot of environment variables, for example
>
>      ID_server1="ids1"
>      PW_server1="pwids1"
>      ID_server2="ids2"
>      PW_server2="pwids2"
>
>   2) In your script code the following lines
>
>      . include_my_adsm_parmfile
>
>      #  Id and Password for choosen server
>      eval server_id=\"\$ID_$server\"
>      eval server_pw=\"\$PW_$server\"
>
>
>      # make your admin-command
>
>      dsmadmc -s=$server -id=$server_id -password=$server_pw <cmd>
>
>
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