Re: Typical DB install - security risk?

   Thanks for taking the time to respond to my message. Your responses    have been very helpful. I agree that I have a lot to learn about    Oracle. I'm currently reading Oracle 8i Networking 101 and Oracle 8i:    The Complete Reference. I think need to practice with this default    database before creating one from scratch. I'm obviously not ready    for prime time.

Thanks again,

Brian

jrevenn_at_emory.edu wrote in <svi6k6gts2fgd3_at_news.supernews.com>:

>
>I just installed the typical database during an Oracle 8i installation
>on a Windows 2000 server. After the installation, I went into DBA
>studio and noticed that a lot of users have been created for me. My
>very newbie question is, which accounts can I delete and which accounts
>must I keep? There is SYS (password:change_on_install). I'm assuming
>that I am supposed to change this password and keep the account? I keep
>hearing a lot about Scott (password:tiger(?)). Yes he is on my system,
>but his password isn't 'tiger'. I don't know what it is, but I can't
>login to DBA studio with his account. I suspect I'm doing something
>wrong. Can I delete this account? There are a bunch of other accounts
>with various names. I have no idea what their passwords could be. Is
>it ok to simply modify the database that the Oracle installed created
>for me during the typical installation for my purpose. Should I delete
>the database and create another from scratch? I would rather just
>modify this one. Since I've had so many problems configuring the
>listener after creating an Oracle databases from scratch, I would like
>to simply keep and modify this database that the Oracle Installer
>configured for me perfectly (I think?). I'm just not sure if there are
>any security loop-holes in this preconfigured database? Also, what is
>the importance of the extproc... database that is alway located above my
>database? Is my database somehow datalinked to this database for PL/SQL
>calls?
>
>Thanks for your help,
>
>Brian
>
Received on Sun Oct 29 2000 - 08:05:16 CST