Re: Oracle in AIX question

From: Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.nospam.demon.nl>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 21:21:50 +0100
Message-ID: <3q5vsv032bhvikflctgeum06egbdcfoihk@4ax.com>

On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 18:15:51 GMT, "Sherman H." <shung1099_at_earthlink.net> wrote:

>I was thinking of removing some unnecessary user accounts in the AIX such as
>guest, uucp, nobody, etc. However, the system admin indicated that they
>need the guest account is required as standard installation for Oracle as
>first contact to retrieve further authentication. The configuration is like
>GUEST_USER_PWD = guest/guest.
>
>I feel for security reason this is not a good idea. However, can I suggest
>other option to replace this in Oracle?
>

Oracle doesn't need the guest account.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

Received on Thu Dec 04 2003 - 14:21:50 CST