RE: alter session

You are right.

Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
Phone:(203) 459-6855
Email:mgogala_at_oxhp.com

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 5:27 PM
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Revoke CONNECT and RESOURCE privs as well from MGOGALA. I bet you have CONNECT still granted to you and CONNECT, by default has ALTER SESSION priv.

So you do need ALTER SESSION for sql_trace and events, not for any other session altering commands.

Arup Nanda
www.proligence.com

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 4:32 PM

> You don't need it for SQL_TRACE
> Here it goes:
>
> SQL> revoke dba from mgogala;
>
> Revoke succeeded.
>
> SQL> connect mgogala_at_hppulsed
> Enter password: ******
> Connected.
> SQL> alter session set events='10046 trace name context forever,level 1';
>
> Session altered.
>
> Mladen Gogala
> Oracle DBA
> Phone:(203) 459-6855
> Email:mgogala_at_oxhp.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 4:08 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> It's one of the quarky features of Oracle. Contrary to what it may seem
> logical, ALTER SESSION privilege is not needed for any alter session
> operation except the sql_trace = true and setting events. In your case
SCOTT
> does not need any ALTER SESSION privilege to alter session set nls*, even
> setting optimizer_mode!
>
> HTH.
>
> Arup Nanda
> www.proligence.com
>
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>
>
> > Hi list
> > I create a user scott
> > and then gave him create session, create table privileges only.
> > Why is he able to do
> > alter session set nls_date_format='dd-mon-yyyy' ;
> > and
> > alter session set nls_language=French;
> > but he is unable to
> > alter session set sql_trace=true ;
> >
> > Is it because nls parameters are client side and sql_trace affects the
> > server side ?
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