Helen Borrie wrote:

>>On page 836 it said I could do this for a local connection, so I did:
>>
>>SET ISC_USER=SYSDBA
>>SET ISC_USER=masterkey
>
> It's more secure to use -u sysdba -pass masterkey in the command line instead.

Not really. I don't know for Windows, but on Linux any user can run
"ps auxwww" and read the password in clear text. Having env. variables
only for single user that is using them, and saved in file that only
he has access, is more secure option.

Unless if by "secure" you really meant "more reliable" ?

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