From: "Cece Russell" Subject: Re: NT/BMC/ORACLE Question Date: 2000/07/07 Message-ID: <8k5i12$2u9e$1@newssvr05-en0.news.prodigy.com>#1/1 References: <8k5h7i$2gfa$1@newssvr05-en0.news.prodigy.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr05-en0.news.prodigy.com 963005283 2082749 63.254.79.78 (7 Jul 2000 21:28:03 GMT) Organization: Prodigy http://www.prodigy.com X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Jul 2000 21:28:03 GMT Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Please reply to my email address of jamesrussell@prodigy.net . I used my wife's email account to post this. Thanks. "Cece Russell" wrote in message news:8k5h7i$2gfa$1@newssvr05-en0.news.prodigy.com... > > I need the help of someone, anyone who is familiar with Oracle8 on NT. In > particular, I set up the environment on NT so that I could log onto svrmgr30 > as internal without a password. This was done so that a BMC product > (SQLBACKTRACK, used to backup Oracle) could use svrmgr30 to shutdown and > startup the database without having to supply a password for internal. This > was a requirement of the product. > > Now I am faced with a problem. To do this I had to do three things: set a > parameter in the sqlnet.ora file, set a parameter in the init.ora file, > create an NT group called ora_dba and grant membership to the account that > owns the database to this group. Now anyone with administrative privileges > on NT can place any NT account into this group. Anyone who is a member of > this group (they do not need explicit privileges on the Oracle directory or > files) can execute svrmgr30 and log on as internal without a password. They > can do the same thing with sqlplus. > > How can I secure things on NT so that only the NT account that installed the > software can log on as internal without a password? Any ideas? > > Please reply to my email account if at all possible. > > Thank you very much. > > Jim Russell > >