Re: Security freakout

This may have to do with the UNIX umask setting for the Oracle account.

Allan
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From: <blair_at_pjm.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 9:25 AM Subject: Security freakout

> RDBMS: 7.3.2 / 8.0.5 / 8.1.6 OS: AIX
>
> We are going through a major Security tightening here. The auditors are
> demanding to know why $ORACLE_HOME/otrace/admin/*.dat files are
world-writeable.
>
> I don't think these need to be world writeable - but I didn't set them
that way
> so Oracle must have at installation.
>
> Is there a problem with my changing them from -rw-rw-rw- to -rw-rw-r-- ??
>
> thanks,
>
> ..tom
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Received on Tue Nov 21 2000 - 18:44:40 CST