RE: Stop using SYS, SYSTEM?

And for an opposing opinion:

Let's see now. We create another user and grant that user all the privileges needed to do ANYTHING. And that makes things sooooo much more secure? If that's the prevailing thought among the database world, then it's safe to say that the Unix admins have infinitely more common sense by logging as root when functioning as root. Well NO! We should create a user named rewt with the same UID and GID as root; and then always log in as rewt
(or route).

For what it's worth, if you have many databases, it's going to be a real pain in the ass to track every stinkin' DBA account and not have those DBA accounts that we forgot about when old Joe quit or (worse) when Billy Bob decided to become a developer instead of a DBA. If somebody can't log in as SYSTEM or SYS without fouling things up, they shouldn't be logging in at all. And if they have DBA privs, they can make a mess regardless of whether they log in as SYSTEM or CISTUM.

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