Re: unable to create stored outline for sql inside a procedure --

This is in conflict with what a few Oracle folks have said.

Interesting. I guess you'd have to ask the oracle security architect to get the full story.

Jared

On Thursday 26 December 2002 12:39, Khedr, Waleed wrote:
> This may be more convincing:
>
> http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_data
>b ase_id=NOT&p_id=1031418.6
>
> regards,
>
> Waleed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 2:19 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> --Resolved
>
>
> jared,
>
> Thanks for explanation. Still not convinced because of following two
> reasons
>
> 1) Same scenario can happen with explicit privileges as well. User A grants
> ALL privileges on MY_TABLE to B without GRANT OPTION. Now B can create a
> stored procedure to do DML on MY_TABLE and grant execute permission to
> anybody. Which would allow user B to grant access on A.MY_TABLE, though A
> did not give that kind of access to user B (No GRANT OPTION).
>
> 2) To take care of this problem invokers rights facility was introduced.
> Then why this restriction on roles.
>
> Please let me know if I am missing something here.
>
> Thanks
> Shaleen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> To: <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>; "Shaleen" <shgarg_orafaq_at_hotmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 11:09 PM
> procedure --Resolved
>
> > Shaleen,
> >
> > This is done to preserve security.
> >
> > User A owns a table MY_TABLE.
> >
> > Role A_STUFF allows insert, select, update, delete on A.MY_TABLE.
> >
> > grant insert,select,update,delete on MY_TABLE to A_STUFF;
> >
> > ( note that the role was not granted admin privs on the table )
> >
> > User B is granted role A_STUFF.
> >
> > If user B were able to create a stored procedure based on
> > privs from the role A_STUFF, he would be able to grant
> > execute on the SP, which would allow user B to grant
> > access to A.MY_TABLE, though A did not give that kind
> > of access to role A_STUFF.
> >
> > Hence the need to grant a user explicit rights to an object
> > if it is to be used in a stored procedure.
> >
> > System privs work the same way, they must be explicit.
> >
> > Jared
> >
> > On Tuesday 24 December 2002 11:13, Shaleen wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > Oracle support was able to resolve this issue for me and I would like
> > > to share the learning. The problem was that I was unable to create
> > > stored outline for sql executing within a stored procedure after
> > > turning create_stored_outlines=true. Create outlines for sql
> > > satetements
>
> executing
>
> > > from sqlplus/plsql blocks was not an issue.
> > >
> > > The problem is resolved by granting create any outline privilege to the
> > > user explicitly.
> > >
> > > Once I again I was bit by the limitation of roles not passing privilege
> > > within stored procedures and this has to be done explicitly. Why oracle
>
> has
>
> > > this limitation beats me!!
> > >
> > > Thanks for help Jared & Raj.
> > >
> > > Shaleen
> >
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