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Re: capture oracle pwd change in 3rd party application. help needed

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 14:50:45 -0800
Message-ID: <1068245466.11957@yasure>


Pete Finnigan wrote:

>>> My objection is that it would take me a matter of minutes to
>>>
>>>
>> make myself an account on another
>> machine on which I had no permissions. It is a hacker's delight.
>>
>>
>
>Hi Daniel,
>
>I think there is another point to make here is that we are not
>implementing this but just discussing possible solutions without knowing
>the application or architecture, tools, requirements etc.... I would say
>that a script to synchronise password hash values should be run in a
>secure manner and also would not add new accounts, just synchronise old
>ones. I would also re-iterate this isn't the way to fix an issue like
>this, why does this application need to have synchronised access to two
>databases? and why isn't the manufacturer involved.
>
>kind regards
>
>Pete
>
>

My personal opinion? The person asking the question is trying to crack a database.
I've never seen an application with this architecture in 34 years in the business.

I'd really like to be wrong.

-- 
Daniel Morgan
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Received on Fri Nov 07 2003 - 16:50:45 CST

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