Re: privileges and synonyms and dblinks

The problem wasn't consistent either, desc worked for some objects over db_link but not for others. And didn't see anything different about how the privs were granted for those objects.

Suzy Vordos wrote:
>
> This happened to us a few weeks ago, select worked over db_link and desc
> didn't. Think it's a bug, not a privs problem.
>
> > "Adams, Matthew (GEA, MABG, 088130)" wrote:
> >
> > All of a sudden this is not making sense to me.
> >
> > Oracle 8.1.7.3 on HP-UX 11i
> >
> > I have a public db link (link1)
> >
> > I have a user (user1) who creates a PRIVATE synonym.
> > (user1.syn1) that points to a table on the other database
> > using the dblink.
> >
> > User2, having ONLY the CONNECT role, cannot
> > do a describe of user1.syn1, but CAN
> > issue a 'select * from user1.syn1' and get data
> > back. I know that since the db link is public with
> > a account/password, he could get the data anyway by,
> > but what I can figure out is why it resolves the synonym
> > at all when it is private?
> >
> > Am I missing something here?
> >
> > ----
> > Matt Adams - GE Appliances - matt.adams_at_appl.ge.com
> > "Doing linear scans over an associative array is like
> > trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi."
> > - Larry Wall (creator of Perl)

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