I find my policy of *never* disclosing passwords does much the same job <g>.
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"Howard J. Rogers" <dba_at_hjrdba.com> wrote in message
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> I always recommend creating users without create session. Makes for a
very
> easy DBA life.
>
> :-0
>
> Regards
> HJR
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> "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message
> news:3cbbdc03$0$8513$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net...
> > Um yes I wasn't thinking clearly. It may well also be a reason to avoid
> > deployment of new systems on 9.0.1. (unless you can avoid creating users
> > with create session and create view.).
> >
> >
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> > "Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> > news:1018943025.13037.0.nnrp-08.9e984b29_at_news.demon.co.uk...
> > >
> > > In fact, there is a bug, which I couldn't find
> > > last night - 2121935, dated December 2002 !!!
> > >
> > > Any ANSI join is a problem.
> > >
> > > But this isn't a reason for avoid ANSI syntax,
> > > it's a reason for not migrating a production
> > > system to 9.0.1
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jonathan Lewis
> > > http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk
> > >
> > > Author of:
> > > Practical Oracle 8i: Building Efficient Databases
> > >
> > > Next Seminar - Australia - July/August
> > > http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html
> > >
> > > Host to The Co-Operative Oracle Users' FAQ
> > > http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Niall Litchfield wrote in message
> > > <3cbbd589$0$238$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net>...
> > > >"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
> > > >news:3CBB5EFC.43A50425_at_exesolutions.com...
> > > >> And no one other than sys should be looking at sys.link$ anyway.
> > > >
> > > >This is the whole point of the thread. As described so far the use of
> > LEFT
> > > >OUTER JOIN in 9i means that any user with create session privilege
can
> > look
> > > >at data from any table that exists in the database.
> > > >
> > > >Has someone filed a bug on this yet? This looks like a good reason to
> > avoid
> > > >the ANSI syntax for a while yet.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 16 2002 - 10:15:22 CDT
