RE: LSNRCTL Password

Looking at the listener.ora that behaviour makes perfect sense. The tcp/ip host and port are part of the description. If your group id's for dba are the same on both servers the command would be accepted by the listed host as valid.

Rodd

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 5/10/01, 3:25:30 PM, John Kanagaraj <john.kanagaraj_at_hds.com> wrote regarding RE: LSNRCTL Password:

> Alex,

> >Could you explain please how somebody with DBA provileges on
> >another node
> >can shutdown listener on another node without logging as user
> >of the node
> >where listener is running.

> I fully agree with Jared. We encountered this when I duplicated the Prod
> server (including the SQL*net config file) onto a Test box and bounced
the
> test box. The listener.ora file contains the name of the Prod server and
the
> automatic stop/start script executed a 'lsnrctl stop' as part of shutdown
-
> this sent a STOP signal to the identified host (the Prod server). This
> stopped the listener on another system!!

> It is quite easy to test this out - you can create a dummy listener.ora
on
> the Prod box, point that to the Dev box and stop the listener from
Prod...

> Hth,
> John Kanagaraj
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