Oracle-L: RE: Financials and APPS password

From: Jerry Hess <JHess_at_amctheatres.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 06:24:24 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D33C5.20031015062424@fatcity.com>

We have AP,FA,GL,PO,PA,HR and Payroll modules and have setup an account much like you where they can view the data but using a account different from apps. However in our test instance which is refreshed periodically the users have the apps password and do what they like in that instance. I would lock down the apps account in Production and make them run their traces in the development environment. That should give them what they need. Do you have an example of where that wouldn't work ?

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Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 7:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Okay, anyone using Financials... E-Business suite... Oracle 11i... whatever you want to call it...

I am trying to apply SOME kind of security to my databases. It appears that it is critical for everyone to be able to access production using the APPS id.... Finance and accounting people, developers, everyone. What does everyone else do in their setups? The newest reason is the need to run the new Mass Additions Trace which apparently requires that you use the apps id. We have found a way to set up any user with a read only version of what APPS has (since they have to be able to compile reports in production and access production data live rather than a month old clone), but Oracle says that you need to run Mass Additions Trace as apps.

Does anyone let the entire company have the production apps user's password?

April Wells
Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA
Corporate Systems
Amarillo Texas
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