controlling access to specifc IP addresses

From: Mike Ellwood <mwe_at_unixfe.cc.rl.ac.uk>
Date: 23 Jun 1999 14:02:37 GMT
Message-ID: <7kqpdt$nla@newton.cc.rl.ac.uk>

[I am a UNIX sysadmin, rather than a DBA]

I wish to control access to our Oracle system to restrict it to specific IP addresses.

This Oracle 10.7 with Oracle Financials system is running on UNIX (DG-UX).

I can use TCP Wrappers to control access to daemons which normally run under inetd. So I can control which IP addresses telnet, rlogin, etc.

However, our Oracle users do not normally login directly. They are using the PC GUI interface, and all effectively run under the same UNIX id.

I would think I need a special Oracle-oriented means of access control. Our DBAs are not aware of one; is there one?

Alternatively something _like_ TCP wrappers should in theory be able to spot Oracle network connections and filter them by address. Is there such a thing, or can TCP wrappers be suitably adapted to the purpose?
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Mike.Ellwood_at_rl.ac.uk Received on Wed Jun 23 1999 - 09:02:37 CDT