RE: strt<SID>.cmd security hole??

All,

This file is gone on 816 on NT.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 7:47 AM
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$Oracle_Home\database

Also, I forgot to mention that I am on windoze NT.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 4:07 PM
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Where is the strt<SID>.cmd file? I don;t see it anywhere under $ORACLE_HOME.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Farnsworth, Dave [SMTP:DFarnsworth_at_Ashleyfurniture.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 4:47 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: strt<SID>.cmd security hole??
>
> I inherited an Oracle 7.3.4 database that nobody knew the internal
password
> for. So I was doing some research on metalink and came across an article
> that mentioned the strt<SID>.cmd file would have the password. I was
amazed
> to open up this file and see the unencrypted password for internal. I
then
> check my 8.0.5 database and the same thing. Then I checked my 8.1.7
> database and it was not there. Did this gaping security hole disappear in
> the 8i database? I sure hope so.
> Both the 7.3.4 and 8.0.5 have the remote_login_passwordfile init paramater
> set to SHARED, whereas my 8.1.7 is set to EXCLUSIVE. I don't know if this
> has something to do with it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
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