RE: How to get a ora dba job

I'm reminded of the US Navy warship/lighthouse conversation....

Though of course su to oracle is mighty hard on operating systems from redmond.

Cheers

Niall

> -----Original Message-----
> From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com] On Behalf Of
> Rachel Carmichael
> Sent: 16 April 2003 06:14
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: How to get a ora dba job
>
>
> Niall,
>
> I'll take any answer except "change_on_install" or "I don't
> know, we never touched it". "You must be crazy if you think
> I'll tell you that" is more than acceptable :)
>
> here's one for you:
>
> the SA at one place I used to work asked me for the password
> to the oracle account. He did this via an email. I wrote back
> "I'm not giving it to you, you don't need it".
>
> Next email from him "you're right, email is not secure, leave
> me a voicemail with it"
>
> Last reply from me "I'm not giving it to you. Don't you know
> the password for root? Can't you just su to oracle from there?"
>
> His face was red for a week.
>
>
> Rachel
>
> --- Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> > Rachel wrote
> > > Now, I don't know that I would bother asking "what is the
> > > default password for sys" but I might ask "what is the
> > > current password for sys in your production database?" I
> > > don't care if they know what the default is (and with connect
> > > / as sysdba you don't really need to know
> > > anyway) but I do care if they have CHANGED it
> >
> > Presumably with the expected answer 'You must be kidding if
> you think
> > I'd tell you that'.
>
>
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