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Re: Auditing actions done by the DBA.

From: David Busby <dbusby3_at_slb.com>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 17:27:59 -0500
Message-ID: <3B12D0EF.D1399FE7@slb.com>

In effect YES. But you could if you really want create a logon trigger that tries to capture certain activites.

Orlando Amador wrote:

> I'm looking at the Oracle documentation and found the following
> statement:
>
> Audit records are never generated by sessions established by
> the user SYS or connections with administrator privileges.
> Connections by these users bypass certain internal features of
> Oracle to allow specific administrative operations to occur
> (for example, database startup, shutdown, recovery, and so on).
>
> Does this mean than a DBA could disable the audit trail, change
> tables, enable the audit trail and not leave a trace?
>
> is there any solutions to this? Any 3rd party solutions that could
> address this limitation?
>
> Saludos,
> Orlando M. Amador
> oamador_at_psgapr.jnj.com
  Received on Mon May 28 2001 - 17:27:59 CDT

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