sqlplus: can I connect without actually connecting

[khussain]

Is there a way (without writing a shell script) to see if a username/password will be able to connect to sqlplus, without actually connecting ?

so if I do:

sqlplus scott/tiger

I just want a boolean result, not actually connect to the database.

[sambavan]

Nop!

Sam

[marist89]

I wrote a perl script that does a quick connect via OS authentication. If it fails, I exit 1, otherwise, I exit 0.