RE: Requirement to run as user SYS

Barb,

        I for one make extremely limited use of SYS. Basically we use it to startup and shutdown as well as creating databases. Everything else can be done from a normal user account that has been granted the DBA role. It's also safer. Drop some of those SYS objects and your DB will crash & not restart.=20

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Baker [mailto:barb.baker_at_gmail.com]=20 Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 10:35 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Requirement to run as user SYS

 Thanks, Dick. I really appreciate your responses.  It's a double-whammy. We got "written up" by the auditors for using  the SYS account, so management's response is that we just disable it.  < sigh . . . >

> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 09:24:48 -0500, Goulet, Dick <DGoulet_at_vicr.com>
wrote:
> > Barb,
> >
> > I'll feel sorry for you for sure. You've got one VERY
ignorant
> > auditor breathing down your throat and a management team that is
equally
> > ignorant and uncaring for letting this happen. At least our
auditors
> > were savvy enough to know that SYS is a special account that we need
&
> > don't use excessively and left it out of their questions.
> >

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