Re: Alternatives to using utl_file

Hello Niall,
I have written a "CREATE_DIRECTORY" package which is a security controlled implementation of CREATE ANY DIRECTORY specially for this purpose..
http://www.oracleforensics.com/wordpress/index.php/create_directory/ Feel free to use it and send me improvements. Cheers,
Paul

>still a security nightmare, but you could grant 'CREATE ANY DIRECTORY' to
>your application account and then create the directory object at runtime as
>well.

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:01 PM, John Dunn <JDunn_at_sefas.com> wrote:

> OK, thanks
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> The biggest issue I have with utl_file is needing to define utl_file_dir=
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> Since the directories we need to access are not known till run time we have
> to specify utl_file_dir=*, which is a security nightmare.
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> *John *
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