How to auto start the root apache

Hi All,

In my 11i environment, the root apache for ssl is required to start with password explicitly. Every weekend the production goes down for maintenance.

So,Someone needs to manually start the root apache by providing the password. Is there any option to automatically get the password from any os file?

I see , one of the metalink note suggests to remove the password authentication to start for automatic start, however we dont want to start the apache without password

Can we write a shell script to store the password in a file and it automatically use the password from password file?