Re: is it possible to edit archivelog files?

Hi Wijbrand,

Just confirming that yes you can edit the archivelogs.

However, have a need now to recover my database and now I'm buggered ;)

Cheers

Richard
"Wijbrand Pauw" <w.pauw_at_xs4all.nl> wrote in message news:Xns92AD6DC30E3ECwpauwxs4allnl_at_194.109.6.74...
> Hi,
>
> I work at al large bank and we want to get on Unix-Oracle the highest
> possible classification on availability and integrety.
>
> You all know the expressions that one fool can ask more questions than 100
> wise man can answer, well than our security officer is a fool.....
>
> He now wants to know if it is possible to edit/change an archivelogfile
and
> then apply it to an standby database.
> We are doing a checksum on the files on the production and standby machine
> before applying, for what that's worth.
> He wants to know because he wants to be very sure that someone can't fake
a
> disaster on production, going to the standby database, bringing it up and
> there are for example new financial transactions (there will be over
> $50.000.000.000,- transferred every day) which weren't in the orignal
> production environment (that one is for example completly destroyed).
>
>
> I know that this sounds perhaps a bit silly or overdone but they want to
> know.
> So is there a chance that someone can hack the archivelog files and the
file
> still be accepted by the standby database?
>
> Can you think of other potential dangers of changing the standby database
> without being noticed (of course the database will remain in standby mode
> but it is also used in ready only)?
>
> Thanks for your reply!
>
> Regards,
>
> Wijbrand
Received on Thu Oct 24 2002 - 08:40:09 CDT