Question 1. Yes , Scott is the Default userid account when installing
Oralce.
2. Don't know
3. Not sure, I personally only know about this one.
Cheers
Rodg
Jeff Bangle wrote in message <35C62BA7.8AB6146C_at_erols.com>...
>I was reviewing the audit logs the other day and noticed activity by the
>userid SCOTT. There is no authorized user named SCOTT on our network.
>I asked the Oracle DBAs about this, and they said that they needed a
>userid to run some routine administrative tasks. They added that the
>SCOTT userid exists by default when Oracle is installed, so they used it
>to run the admin tasks. We are running Oracle 7.31
>
>My questions are:
>
>1. Is the SCOTT userid really a default account when Oracle is
>installed?
>
>2. If so, are there any security problems with using it?
>
>3. If SCOTT is really a default, are there any other default userids?
Received on Tue Aug 04 1998 - 02:19:02 CDT
