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- From: rlarson@nswc-wo.nswc.navy.mil (Ruth Larson)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: ORACLE on the DEC Alpha AXP
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.144220.25349@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 14:42:20 GMT
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- Steve Schow writes:
- >We routinely use the OPS$LOGIN feature of Oracle for all of our users. This
- >way they don't have to worry about anything once they are logged onto the
- >UNIX machine. They just type program / to run it with their UNIX login info.
-
- >Question:
-
- >When we create a new user as follows:
-
- > grant connect to ops$user identified by bogus;
-
- >and we actually use the word 'bogus' as the oracle password.
-
- >Does this mean that user ops$user could login to Oracle with either
- >the /, which would use his UNIX login info, or with 'bogus' as the
- >password?
-
- Yes, this is EXACTLY the case.
-
- >Could a user go into sql*plus with any convienient name and type
-
- > connect ops$user/bogus
-
- >to get into that user's oracle account
-
- Again, Yes.
-
- >We routinely use bogus to define new oracle users, but I am concerned about
- >security loop holes. We also use a number of macintosh client products that
- >use the ops$user with the UNIX password to login. I am beginning to think
- >that we should make sure that the Oracle password is the same as the UNIX
- >password and NOT use bogus for everyone?!@#%
-
- I would NOT suggest making the Oracle password the same as the system password.
- In many systems the logon password should only be known by the individual
- user. However, there's now need for *anyone* to have to know the ops$ password
- for an individual user - he/she doesn't need to know it, and the DBA can
- always reset it without the user even being aware that it has been reset.
- So use something random, and different for each ops$ account. I like to pick
- a 3 or 4 digit (or larger) number and then spell it out in words. Example:
- two_thousand_three_hundred_eleven. *Nobody* including you will remember
- *that*, and it's pretty hard to guess!
-