Re: Privileges by session

From: Pete Finnigan <pete_at_petefinnigan.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:17:10 +0000
Message-ID: <4B4C4C26.6040901_at_petefinnigan.com>



Hi GovindanK,

product user profile is very weak protection and can be easily bypassed; see http://www.petefinnigan.com/news_letter_001.pdf but also it only works for SQL*plus

cheers

Pete

GovindanK wrote:
> Did you consider PRODUCT_USER_PROFILE?
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> GovindanK
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>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Blanchard, William <
>> wblanchard_at_societyinsurance.com > wrote: 
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>> Greetings, 
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>> I have convinced management to allow me to grant read-only access to the
>> developers. The problem is that they know the application passwords and
>> have been using those passwords to circumvent my controls. Is there a
>> way via a Is there some reason the obvious solution wont' work? 
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>> That is, change the passwords. 
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