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who called my procedure through a database link [message #678135]

Tue, 12 November 2019 13:18

Bill B
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I have a procedure sitting in a schema with definer rights and I only want it to be able to be run from the XYZ user who is accessing the procedure through a database link. The procedure is not in the schema that is being connected to through the database link. I have checked everywhere I can think of and I haven't found anything. I want the information directly from oracle so the calling user can't be faked by passing a password or something like that. Anyone have any ideas. Just a little background. The database link is going into a read only schema. The procedure works just fine using definer rights but I want to lock it down so only the specific user can call it.

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Re: who called my procedure through a database link [message #678136 is a reply to message #678135]

Tue, 12 November 2019 14:35

Michel Cadot
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Do you want the original user that calls the procedure or the user you are connected to the remote database through the database link.
I mean if user USERA in database A connects to database B with user USERB through the database link, do you want USERA or USERB?

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Re: who called my procedure through a database link [message #678137 is a reply to message #678136]

Tue, 12 November 2019 21:28

Bill B
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I want usera in the other database. Userb would be simple using v$session or USER. Thanks for getting back to me

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Re: who called my procedure through a database link [message #678141 is a reply to message #678137]

Wed, 13 November 2019 01:23

Michel Cadot
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I don't think this information (USERA) is passed to the remote database (B) when activating the database link.

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Re: who called my procedure through a database link [message #678152 is a reply to message #678141]

Wed, 13 November 2019 05:40

Bill B
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Unfortunately I think your right, I couldn't find anything that would show it. I appreciate your looking into it.

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Re: who called my procedure through a database link [message #678155 is a reply to message #678152]

Wed, 13 November 2019 07:21

Michel Cadot
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I set up a test case and then searched in all X$ tables of remote database (B) nowhere the original caller (USERA) is in.
I think it is possible to get it using a reverse database link and, using the global transaction id, return back to the source of this one but how this would be reliable?

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Re: who called my procedure through a database link [message #678183 is a reply to message #678155]

Thu, 14 November 2019 10:27

Bill B
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I agree. Thanks for the effort. I couldn't find out any way to do it either

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Re: who called my procedure through a database link [message #678184 is a reply to message #678135]

Thu, 14 November 2019 11:05

John Watson
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You said 10g, is that both databases? If the remote database is 12.x you might do this with unified audit, which shows the audsid from the source database in unified_audit_trail.additional_info that should match the v$session.audsid in the source database.

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Re: who called my procedure through a database link [message #678193 is a reply to message #678184]

Fri, 15 November 2019 10:22

Bill B
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Unfortunately it is between 10g and 8i

We are planning to upgrade the application (hopefully within the year) to Oracle 19

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