Path: text.usenetserver.com!out02a.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!postnews.google.com!b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Anurag Varma Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: dblink_encrypt_login - obsolete in 9i or 10g? Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:46:55 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 45 Message-ID: <267ec037-c23a-462f-81b4-f34420bb196a@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> References: <4e9315a3-ea37-4d05-a562-7f8cc3000c45@f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <981cdb35-b4c4-4670-9637-96df2e65497a@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 13.13.137.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1207673216 26827 127.0.0.1 (8 Apr 2008 16:46:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:46:56 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=13.13.137.1; posting-account=xSIG2woAAADGpsx4rchLRMKzdLxS_yJT User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: usenetserver.com comp.databases.oracle.server:443551 X-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:46:56 EDT (text.usenetserver.com) fitzjarrell@cox.net wrote: > On Apr 8, 10:36=EF=BF=BDam, Randy G wrote: > > I have seen some conflicting reports for this parameter. THe 10g > > upgrade guide says: > > > > Initialization Parameters Obsolete in Release 10.1 > > The following initialization parameters were made obsolete in release > > 10.1: > > DBLINK_ENCRYPT_LOGIN > > HASH_JOIN_ENABLED > > LOG_PARALLELISM...... > > > > But I have seen other documentation referring to it being obsolete in > > 9i. I do see the parameter listed in the DBA guide for 9i. > > > > Does anyone have any solid inks that show it is obsolete in 9i? An > > audit finding is depending on this. > > > > Thank you > > The online documentation at tahiti.oracle.com for 9.2.0 clearly lists > the parameter as active: > > http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96521/secure.htm#= 828 > http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96536/ch150.htm#R= EFRN10044 > http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96540/statements_= 23a.htm#2155668 > > It is listed as obsolete in 10.1: > > http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14117_01/server.101/b10763/changes.htm= #sthref730 > > > David Fitzjarrell Metalink Note:271825.1 lists it as obsolete in 9.2 also. The parameter only applies when connecting to a 7x database. Anurag