RE: How to get a ora dba job

From: Rachel Carmichael <wisernet100_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 21:13:37 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005822FE.20030415211337@fatcity.com>

Niall,

I'll take any answer except "change_on_install" or "I don't know, we never touched it". "You must be crazy if you think I'll tell you that" is more than acceptable :)

here's one for you:

the SA at one place I used to work asked me for the password to the oracle account. He did this via an email. I wrote back "I'm not giving it to you, you don't need it".

Next email from him "you're right, email is not secure, leave me a voicemail with it"

Last reply from me "I'm not giving it to you. Don't you know the password for root? Can't you just su to oracle from there?"

His face was red for a week.

Rachel

• Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote:
  > Rachel wrote
  > > Now, I don't know that I would bother asking "what is the
  > > default password for sys" but I might ask "what is the
  > > current password for sys in your production database?" I
  > > don't care if they know what the default is (and with connect
  > > / as sysdba you don't really need to know
  > > anyway) but I do care if they have CHANGED it
  >
  > Presumably with the expected answer 'You must be kidding if you think
  > I'd tell you that'.
  

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