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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.misc -> Re: UTL_FILE.FOpen ends with Ora-00600 internal error when file pathis null (Win2K 8.1.7.0.0)
Daniel Morgan wrote:
> Karsten Farrell wrote:
>>Maybe you should try that one in the OpenHack contest sponsored by eWeek >>magazine. A couple of years ago, the hacker won $1000 for breaking into >>Oracle by using the default password to the MDSYS account (after reading >>in the Oracle docs how complicated it is to change without breaking >>something else and figuring Ziff-Davis Pub hadn't done it).
Yes, it does seem like easy money. See Metalink Note 160861.1 for a list of the default users. But I guess the problem with DBSNMP is that you can't just 'ALTER USER DBSNMP IDENTIFIED BY newpassword;' unless you want to generate a bunch of 'NMS-00205' failures in your dbsnmp.log file.
See Metalink Note 70174.1 and 168549.1 for details on how to correctly change it, but the basic steps are (in case someone is wondering):
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