Re: Protecting the listener with a password

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, [iso-8859-1] paquette stephane wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've tested the password protection on the listener
> (Oracle 816/Solaris) and it's not clear to me what
> gain I have (I have a cold, it's monday and the coffee
> machine is broke again) beside the fact that nobody
> can stop the listener without the password.
>
>
>

One thing you gain is that is makes it impossible to shutdown your listener from a remote machine. This can be either malicious or accidental, but it can happen.

e.g. another dba in your org copies your listener.ora to his machine as a template, and does a shutdown before modifying the file. This will shutdown your listener.

With a password, the can't do that.

Jared Still
Certified Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist ;) jkstill_at_teleport.com
jared_still_at_enron.net Received on Mon Jan 08 2001 - 11:29:58 CST