Re: Any ideas for running CRON jobs under Security Requirements

Hemant,
Where did you find this requirement?
We are having more then 20 SOX compliant databases and running our jobs as either SYSDBA on Windows and *nix as well but not seen any objection from our internal or external auditors so far...

Regards
Rafiq

On 5/13/05, Hemant K Chitale <hkchital_at_singnet.com.sg> wrote:
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> How do you run CRON jobs {Online Backups, DB Monitoring} on Database Ser=
vers
> when IT Security / SOX requirements state that
> a) No userid-password pairs are to be kept in plain-text in any files
> b) connect / as sysdba is not to be used
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> I can handle a) with CRON jobs running under the "oracle" account with
> "connect / as sysdba"
> at the beginning of SQL scripts. I can handle b) if I hard code a
> userid/password with the
> appropriate privileges. How do I handle both requirements ?
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> Hemant K Chitale
> http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hkchital
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