Re: oracle account suddenly change to lock???

Finding the source of failed login attempts. [ID 352389.1]

Came in handy for me where a rogue app server would sit and spin with failed logins.

Best Regards,

Steve

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Gints Plivna <gints.plivna_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/11/21 Mark W. Farnham <mwf_at_rsiz.com>:
>> do you lock accounts after a certain number of connection attempts that are
>> bad?
>>
>> If so, this can be a symptom of a variety of denial of service attack
>
> Sometimes it is just simple db user password change without
> configuring all webservers/whatever else app servers with new
> password. So they are trying to connect using old password and locking
> account again and again :)
>
> Of course  assuming failed_login_attempts has been set in profiles.
>
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