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Re: use of generic oracle accounts

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:19:16 +0100
Message-ID: <7765c8970710240719p30be777el7d14c4045f8075d5@mail.gmail.com>


The only immediate drawback that I can see is that SYSDBA == SYS always. You'd be better off auditing sysdba actions by osuser (which IIRC 10g does anyway). Granting dba to individual accounts seems reasonable enough to me.

On 10/23/07, Joe Armstrong-Champ <joseph.armstrong-champ_at_tufts.edu> wrote:
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> Our auditors are concerned with the fact that we share the sys and
> system accounts among the dba group. Has anyone ever created equivalent
> accounts for each dba member? If so, what are the problems with doing
> this?
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> Thanks.
> Joe
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