Xref: alice comp.databases.oracle.misc:52331 Path: alice!news-feed.fnsi.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!wn4feed!worldnet.att.net!207.24.196.41!nntphub.cb.lucent.com!news From: Kenneth C Stahl Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc Subject: Re: Help! I'm accused of breaching security! Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 08:02:24 -0500 Organization: xyzzy Lines: 16 Message-ID: <38982AE0.D2DDC049@Unforgetable.com> References: <8785ci$hag$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD EMS-1.4 (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en dseuser@my-deja.com wrote: > > At work we use a popular Oracle database application for college > administration. The DBA granted select privileges so end-users could > connect with Access to the tables in their module. Today I logged in to > SQLPlus, which is loaded on every machine with the Access ODBC driver. I > wanted to learn about SQL. > > DBA has called my boss to say I've breached security. I say, can't be, > since the DBA set up security of select only and only to my tables. > > Can the DBA be right? If she is, doesn't that implicate that the > security she set up is pretty bad? Perhaps the DBA has auditing turned on and saw some entries which indicated that you were doing things that you were not authorized for.