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Re: Securing 'internal' from ROOT

From: Olivier Bercovitz <olivier.bercovitz_at_steria.fr>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 11:52:51 GMT
Message-ID: <36136C9F.1AF90A54@steria.fr>


Hello Mimmo,

You have a way to give a password to 'internal' "user" Just look at using orapwd in Oracle Administrator's Guide chapter "Type of Oracle7 users - Password File Administration" It' an Oracle solution
But previous answer of Francois works well too

Hope this help
Regards.
Olivier

jan wrote:

> Mimmo Briganti wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to get svrmgrl to prompt for a password on hp-ux systems like
> > it does on NT when a 'connect internal' is issued?
> >
> > The company I work for is trying to secure the database from the following
> > scenario:
> >
> > UNIX SA issues an su - oracle
> > svrmgrl ... connect internal
> > select * from hr.salaries ...
> >
> > The UNIX SA is unionized and they don't want him to see management salaries.
> > Thanks in advance ...
> >
> > Mimmo Briganti
>
> It occurs to me that the company has a problem of a non technical nature - legal
>
> perhaps. If you can't trust an employee not to leak confidential information,
> maybe
> you ought to get rid of him? Or maybe he ought to get rid of a company that
> finds
> it imperative to distrust it's employees?
>
> There may be a way - I think I remember something about it - but I don't that's
> where the solution is.
>
> /jan
Received on Thu Oct 01 1998 - 06:52:51 CDT

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