Re: Security & deletable users

From: Jonathan Gennick <gennick_at_worldnet.att.net>
Date: 31 Jan 1999 01:12:00 GMT
Message-ID: <36bfa318.3615955@netnews.worldnet.att.net>

On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:02:15 GMT, John M <jmullee_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

>Oracle NT 8.0 Quikie: Which users are installed by default,
>and therefore should not be deleted?
> DBSNMP ?
You may be able to delete this. I always do. I think it is used by Enterprise Manager's intelligent agent. You should probably investigate this a bit more before deleting it, to be sure that you don't use it.

> DEMO deletable ?

yes.

> MDSYS ?
> ORDSYS ?

I don't know what the above two are for. Could they be users that you created?

> SCOTT deletable ?

yes. The user SCOTT owns some demo tables.

> SYS not !?!
> SYSTEM not !?!

Do NOT delete either of the above two users.

> TONINATO deletable ?
> JOBSITE deletable ?

These probably have something to do with an application that you run.

Jonathan Received on Sat Jan 30 1999 - 19:12:00 CST