RE: Truncate another users table

From: Larry Hahn <lhahn_60_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 12:00:32 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20041203200032.29748.qmail@web42008.mail.yahoo.com>

Mark,

I agree that would work better and be more secure. But the actual truncate code is buried in the vendors code. It is part of a bigger process that I cant get changed at the moment.

I am looking for a resolution in the mean time.

Larry

• "Bobak, Mark" <Mark.Bobak_at_il.proquest.com> wrote:

> Larry,
>
> Synonyms don't work on DDL statements, as you discovered.
>
> However, rather than granting a user DROP ANY TABLE,
> which
> it seems to me could be easily misused or abused, why not
> do:
>
> As user1:
> create function truncate_the_table as
> begin
> execute immediate 'truncate table this_table';
> end;
> /
> grant execute on truncate_the_table to user2;
>
> As user2:
>
> exec truncate_the_table;
>
> That may be a better solution for you....
>
>
> -Mark
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
> > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of
> Larry Hahn
> > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 2:43 PM
> > To: Oracle-L_at_freelists.org
> > Subject: Truncate another users table
> >
> >
> > List,
> >
> > I am running version 8.1.7 on Sun.
> >
> > I am trying to allow a user (A) to truncate another
> users
> > (B) table. I have already given the DROP ANY TABLE
> right to
> > A, and made a public synonym for the table owned by B.
> >
> > I can't do the truncate if I just give the table name,
> but
> > if I put the owner first (truncate table A.<tablename>)
> it
> > works. What have I missed?
> >
> > Because the truncate command that I ultimately need to
> run
> > is buried in the vendors code, I am not able to create
> and
> > execute the stored procedure that I have seen suggested
> > here on the list in the past.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> >
> > Larry Hahn
> >
> >
> >
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Received on Fri Dec 03 2004 - 13:58:05 CST