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On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:43:56 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am working on a system that has implemented a lot of functionality in
>database packages. One of these packages contains logic that grants execute
>privileges on various packages in the system. In some cases however, this
>package tries to grant execute privileges on itself. Unfortunately, the
>original designers of the system did not know that such a behaviour is not
>possible.
>
>I am trying to fix the problem and I am looking for an "easy" way.... But a
>really good idea escapes me for the moment. Maybe you have one?
>
>I will appreciate your response, thanks in advance.
>
>Cheers
>Johan
One possible way would be to use DBMS_JOB to submit a request for the grant to occur shortly after a commit. This will run in another session. It won't take effect immediately
if you need to read a little about jobs,
select text from all_source where name = 'DBMS_JOB' and type = 'PACKAGE' order by line;
will get you going. don't forget to set the init.ora parameters
job_queue_interval job_queue_processes
to enable the automatic processing of jobs.
See http://www.oracle.com/ideveloper/ for my column 'Digging-in to Oracle8i'... Mirrored (and more current) at http://govt.us.oracle.com/~tkyte/
Current article is "Fine Grained Access Control", added June 8'th
Thomas Kyte tkyte_at_us.oracle.com Oracle Service Industries Reston, VA USA--
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