Re: NT/BMC/ORACLE Question

Please reply to my email address of jamesrussell_at_prodigy.net . I used my wife's email account to post this. Thanks.

"Cece Russell" <cecerussell_at_prodigy.net> wrote in message news:8k5h7i$2gfa$1_at_newssvr05-en0.news.prodigy.com...
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> I need the help of someone, anyone who is familiar with Oracle8 on NT. In
> particular, I set up the environment on NT so that I could log onto
 svrmgr30
> as internal without a password. This was done so that a BMC product
> (SQLBACKTRACK, used to backup Oracle) could use svrmgr30 to shutdown and
> startup the database without having to supply a password for internal.
 This
> was a requirement of the product.
>
> Now I am faced with a problem. To do this I had to do three things: set
 a
> parameter in the sqlnet.ora file, set a parameter in the init.ora file,
> create an NT group called ora_dba and grant membership to the account that
> owns the database to this group. Now anyone with administrative
 privileges
> on NT can place any NT account into this group. Anyone who is a member of
> this group (they do not need explicit privileges on the Oracle directory
 or
> files) can execute svrmgr30 and log on as internal without a password.
 They
> can do the same thing with sqlplus.
>
> How can I secure things on NT so that only the NT account that installed
 the
> software can log on as internal without a password? Any ideas?
>
> Please reply to my email account if at all possible.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Jim Russell
>
>
Received on Fri Jul 07 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT