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RE: Re: RE: Re: Stop using SYS, SYSTEM?

From: Jacques Kilchoer <Jacques.Kilchoer_at_quest.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:34:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D6B38.20031114163425@fatcity.com>


> -----Original Message-----
> Nuno Pinto do Souto
>
> I don't want to know that SYSTEM or SOUTON with a subset
> of its rights stuffed up my database or exported my main accounts
> and clients tables. What I want to know is WHY, WHEN, HOW and
> by WHOM.

What I was saying is that having a different username for each DBA helps you identify the WHOM. Of course a hacker could always cut knock the DBA unconscious and prop up his head to fool an eye retina scan, à la James Bond, but by that argument any username or IP address or whatever else you use is meaningless.

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