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Re: passwords in clear text and password protected roles bypass

From: Mladen Gogala <mladen_at_wangtrading.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:05:58 -0500
Message-ID: <20040315190558.GA19813@mladen.wangtrading.com>


Put DBMS_RANDOM in the script. Be warned, that may produce random results.

On 03/15/2004 01:50:42 PM, Ravi Kulkarni wrote:
> Great hint, Thank you.
> Is there a way to avoid(/defer) clear-text-passwords when Creating users ?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Pete Finnigan
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 1:14 PM
> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Subject: passwords in clear text and password protected roles bypass
>
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Further to Nuno's question last week I have just put two short papers on
> my website, the first discussing clear text password transmissions when
> changing a users password in the database which i showed in my post last
> and the second discussing the same issue with set role {blah} identified
> by {blah}.
>
> The second paper also discusses an issue I found whereby you can bypass
> the password protection assigned to a role. Both papers describe the
> issues and also suggest possible solutions. The papers are available
> from:
>
> http://www.petefinnigan.com/ramblings/passwords_in_clear_text.htm
> and
> http://www.petefinnigan.com/ramblings/issues_with_roles_and_passwords.ht
> m
>
> Hope you find them useful.
>
> kind regards
>
> Pete
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> Web site: http://www.petefinnigan.com - Oracle security audit specialists
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