Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!nntp.flash.net!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!195.158.233.21!news1.ebone.net!news.ebone.net!lnewspeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!lnewsifeed02.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!lnewspost00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!not-for-mail From: "Niall Litchfield" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server References: <3bc4368c.2037599@news.btx.dtag.de> Subject: Re: instance - security Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:52:52 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3bc452bc$0$8511$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: host9.audit-commission.gov.uk X-Trace: 1002721980 reading.news.pipex.net 8511 193.128.236.219 X-Complaints-To: abuse@uk.uu.net Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.server:120816 X-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 07:40:43 MST (news.easynews.com) If you use different usernames and passwords across instances none. It is still a poor idea. He probably ought to have a developer role created for him with permissions,quotas etc assigned to the role. It also creates bad precedent -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA Audit Commission UK "Andreas Lommel" wrote in message news:3bc4368c.2037599@news.btx.dtag.de... > A developer wants to create a database on our Oracle - DB-system. > He wants to get DBA-rights for this user for this instance. > Which are the security holes for other instances ? >