RE: Database Auditing

I got it to work. If I try AUDIT DBA or AUDIT USER I am able to track the ALTER USER statements. Actually, according to the tables 8-1 and 8-2 for the AUDIT statement in the SQL Reference Manual, AUDIT ALTER USER isn't even a valid statement to audit.

Thanks,
Jay

>>> jhostetter_at_decommunications.com 05/01/03 10:01AM >>>
John,

  Nothing is in sys.aud$.

SQL> select * from sys.aud$;

no rows selected

Thanks,
Jay

>>> John.Hallas_at_gb.vodafone.co.uk 05/01/03 05:26AM >>>
Jay,
Have you selected from sys.aud$ to see if the audit rows have been created?

John

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What am I missing here? I have enabled auditing in the database, but it doesn't seem to work. This is an 8.1.7.3 database on Tru64. I set the initialization parameter and issued two AUDIT statements - AUDIT ALTER USER and AUDIT ALTER USER BY JMH123; I want to monitor activity that alters accounts.

Thank you,
Jay

SQL> run
  1 select name,value from v$parameter
  2* where name like '%audit%'

NAME                                                             VALUE
---------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------
transaction_auditing                                             TRUE
audit_trail                                                      DB
audit_file_dest                                                  ?/rdbms/audit

SQL> select * from dba_stmt_audit_opts;

USER_NAME                      PROXY_NAME                     AUDIT_OPTION                             SUCCESS    FAILURE
------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---------------------------------------- ---------- ----------
                                                              ALTER USER                               BY ACCESS  BY ACCESS
JMH123                                                        ALTER USER                               BY ACCESS  BY ACCESS

SQL> connect jmh123
Enter password:
Connected.
SQL> alter user jmh123 identified by devdata;

User altered.

SQL> connect system
Enter password:
Connected.
SQL> select * from dba_audit_trail;

no rows selected

SQL> SQL> select * from dba_audit_statement;

no rows selected

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