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Re: User access within/outside of app

From: Larry Hahn <lhahn_60_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:42:00 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00372FB8.20010821113618@fatcity.com>

Jon,

Thanks for the response. But these users still need to do updates through the app. I only want to keep them from doing updates from outside the app.

Larry
--- Jon Walthour <jonw_at_fuse.net> wrote:
> Create another user with select privileges only on
> the objects in the app's schema. Give that one to
> them and then change the password on the original
> app id so they won't be able to use that one
> anymore.
>
> Jon Walthour
> >
> > From: Larry Hahn <lhahn_60_at_yahoo.com>
> > Date: 2001/08/21 Tue AM 11:21:04 EDT
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> > Subject: User access within/outside of app
> >
> > List,
> >
> > We have purchased a system where users login
> through
> > an ODBC connection using a generic Oracle userid.
> This
> > userid has full rights to do insert, update,
> delete,
> > select on any table in the schema. The app asks
> for
> > another username and password which checks the
> > application security table, which limits what
> areas of
> > the apps they can access.
> >
> > Although this may work fine for the app, the users
> > also have the ability to use Access and other ODBC
> > compliant programs to look at the data. When doing
> so,
> > they use the same ODBC DSN and, what do you know,
> they
> > have capabilities beyond their wildest
> imagination.
> >
> > This is obviously not a situation I want to
> implement.
> > I am looking for a way to allow a user into the
> app to
> > do their normal work, but only allow read access
> for
> > anything outside the app.
> >
> > Any suggestions or ideas would be more than
> welcome.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Larry Hahn
> > Journal Sentinel, Inc.
> >
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Larry Hahn
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