RE: Looking for opinions...

From: Hostetter, Jay M <JHostetter_at_decommunications.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:10:09 -0500
Message-ID: <D67EB7CEECD4334F9C85759227553BBC0B4B46EA@CL-EXCHANGE1.dande.com>


"Situation is a "generic" database account that too many people know the password to. But they need to know the password for valid business reasons. "

You would have to argue long and hard to convince me there are valid business reasons. If this were an in-scope SOX database, could you convince the auditors that these people need to access this account? I've never been able to do it.

Jay

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Sweetser, Joe Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:38 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Looking for opinions...

Situation is a "generic" database account that too many people know the password to. But they need to know the password for valid business reasons. Does it make more sense to limit that account's access to its' own tables or create a new account(s) and grant those the specific access they need? I like the second option for various reasons (auditability (is that a word?) and accountability to name two) but others think just controlling the generic account's access to objects is fine. To be a little more clear (and one reason why I don't like the first option), there would be different privs on different tables - select only on table A; select, insert on table B; select, update on Table C; etc). Even with using roles, something just sort of bugs me about an owner/account not being to update its' own data (read-only situation exceptions, of course).

Opinions/comments/suggestions? Feel free to send back-channel and I will summarize since I don't think this falls under a technical umbrella. :-)

Thanks,
-joe
 

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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Thu Jan 31 2008 - 13:10:09 CST

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