Re: lsnrctl passwords

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:00 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.
>

Malicious users can exist inside the network.

AKA employees

This can also happen accidentally, say a DBA copies a listener.ora to his PC for
modification, forgets to modify it, then stops the listener.

Oops.

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