RE: lsnrctl passwords

From: Powell, Mark D <mark.powell_at_eds.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:16:58 -0400
Message-ID: <D1DC33E67722D54A93F05F702C99E2A90234C087@usahm208.amer.corp.eds.com>

This works for us. Make sure you did not use a UNIX meta-character in the password.  

$OH/bin/lsnrctl <<EOFlsnr
set password x
start
set log_status off
trace off
exit
EOFlsnr
exit

• Mark D Powell -- Phone (313) 592-5148

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        From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Blanchard William

	Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 12:15 PM
	To: Bradd Piontek; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
	Subject: RE: lsnrctl passwords
	
	

	We tried scripting the startup but it doesn't accept the

password. We can set it interactively but that is very labor intensive.

        lsnrctl << EOF

        set password <password>

        set current_listener <sid>

        start

        EOF

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	From: Bradd Piontek [mailto:piontekdd_at_gmail.com] 
	Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 11:10 AM
	To: Blanchard William
	Subject: Re: lsnrctl passwords
	
	
	As I understand, many attacks can come from within. This isn't

about being on the internet or internal. It is a simple mechanism to keep your listener secure. Any user in your enterprise with the lsnrctl executable could stop the listener remotely with a password in place.         

        I don't see how startup scripts are affected. You don't need a password to start a listener. Stopping the listener requires one.         

	$ORACLE_HOME/bin/lsnrctl <<EOF
	   set password PASSWORDHASHHERE
	   stop
	EOF
	
	
	
	On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Blanchard William

<William.Blanchard_at_kohler.com> wrote:         

                Wouldn't they need access to your network in order to access the listener? I know that you can set up a similar entry in a listener.ora and remotely access the listener (I did this to prove it) but I was behind the firewall. I tried from home but wasn't able to access the listener using the same technique.

                Another question is that in 9i you can't do a save_config and have to enter the password interactively in order to use the listener. So, after a cold backup and a server restart, someone would have to manually restart every listener.

                Has anyone figured out how to script this? We tried but weren't able to figure out how to script the password entry so that our startup scripts would work with a password protected listener.                  

                William

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		From: Andrew Kerber [mailto:andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com] 
		Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 10:44 AM
		To: Blanchard William
		Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
		Subject: Re: lsnrctl passwords
		
		
		Several things they could do, for one they could turn

off logging when you need it. They could also turn on logging, fille up the drive that the log file is on, and stop your listener, they could shut down the listener so no one could connect. ALl of these could be accidental or on purpose, but a password makes it harder to do either way. Also, most Sarbanes-Oxley compliance checklists require it.                 

                It is a pain to deal with even so.                                  

                On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Blanchard William <William.Blanchard_at_kohler.com> wrote:                 

                        Is anyone out there using lsnrctl passwords? If so, why? I realize that there are vulnerabilities but if they're able to get at the network, why would they waste their time on the listner?                                                                             

                        William                                  

		-- 
		Andrew W. Kerber
		
		'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.' 

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