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- From: mcglough@glas.rtsg.mot.com (Mark McGloughlin)
- Subject: Re: OPS$LOGIN : security hole?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.094626.3946@glas.rtsg.mot.com>
- Organization: Motorola Ireland Ltd., Cork, Ireland.
- References: <1992Dec14.222728.13778@oracle.us.oracle.com> <1992Dec15.144220.25349@relay.nswc.navy.mil> <8aT=R#A@engin.umich.edu> <1go861INN4hv@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 09:46:26 GMT
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- p228@uni05.larc.nasa.gov (Bailey Bob) writes:
-
- >The only way the ops$ account works without a password is when you are
- >directly logged into the host server at the OS level. If you connect to
- >the host via SQL*Net, the RDBMS will require entry of the password.
-
- Bob,
- I am afraid that you are mistaken there. I have an Oracle 6.0.33 db
- running on a Sun network with YP (or NIS) running. One the password
- map is available to the host, the ops$login works without a password.
- You do not have to be logged in to the host computer. In fact, at
- this site, non-administrative users don't even have access to the
- Oracle host.
-
- sqlplus /@oracle_host
-
- works for them all....
-
- I am not sure what happens if the host is not running YP though....
-
- Mark...
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