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Re: Oracle automatically creates new users every day?

From: Dusan Bolek <pagesflames_at_usa.net>
Date: 1 Aug 2002 07:37:31 -0700
Message-ID: <1e8276d6.0208010637.2969866c@posting.google.com>


"Richard Foote" <richard.foote_at_bigpond.com> wrote in message news:<Pe529.50073$Hj3.149690_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com>...
> Hi Wailakig,
>
> You've got to admit, Internetmaster's advice was pretty good :)
>
> May I suggest the best way to stop it is to find out how (and more to the
> point why) exactly this is happening. Note that Oracle doesn't create users
> on it's own (suggestions that there is a Catholic version of Oracle are
> totally unfounded), there must be something running CREATE USER
> yetanotherone ... from somewhere.
>
> Look in DBA_USERS to verify that in fact there are a whole bunch of users,
> use perhaps logminer to determine how they're being created.
>
> Can't help thing 'why' is the most curious question though ...

That's why I've asked fot their names. I have an idea that reason for this "automatic" creating of users is someone who is trying daily to run some admin scripts from ?/rdbms/admin and at the end of day some other "DBA" always deletes this users because do not know purpose of them.

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