Re: User access within/outside of app

Create another user with select privileges only on the objects in the app's schema. Give that one to them and then change the password on the original app id so they won't be able to use that one anymore.

Jon Walthour
>
> From: Larry Hahn <lhahn_60_at_yahoo.com>
> Date: 2001/08/21 Tue AM 11:21:04 EDT
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Subject: User access within/outside of app
>
> List,
>
> We have purchased a system where users login through
> an ODBC connection using a generic Oracle userid. This
> userid has full rights to do insert, update, delete,
> select on any table in the schema. The app asks for
> another username and password which checks the
> application security table, which limits what areas of
> the apps they can access.
>
> Although this may work fine for the app, the users
> also have the ability to use Access and other ODBC
> compliant programs to look at the data. When doing so,
> they use the same ODBC DSN and, what do you know, they
> have capabilities beyond their wildest imagination.
>
> This is obviously not a situation I want to implement.
> I am looking for a way to allow a user into the app to
> do their normal work, but only allow read access for
> anything outside the app.
>
> Any suggestions or ideas would be more than welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry Hahn
> Journal Sentinel, Inc.
>
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