RE: lsnrctl passwords

From: Blanchard William <William.Blanchard_at_kohler.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:14:44 -0500
Message-ID: <E63501B74DE6A2429DF8FB61BFD38E1402C17495@USWIMS04.kohlerco.com>

We tried scripting the startup but it doesn't accept the password. We can set it interactively but that is very labor intensive.

lsnrctl << EOF

set password <password>

set current_listener <sid>

start

EOF

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From: Bradd Piontek [mailto:piontekdd_at_gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 11:10 AM
To: Blanchard William
Subject: Re: lsnrctl passwords

As I understand, many attacks can come from within. This isn't about being on the internet or internal. It is a simple mechanism to keep your listener secure. Any user in your enterprise with the lsnrctl executable could stop the listener remotely with a password in place.

I don't see how startup scripts are affected. You don't need a password to start a listener. Stopping the listener requires one.

$ORACLE_HOME/bin/lsnrctl <<EOF

   set password PASSWORDHASHHERE
   stop
EOF On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Blanchard William
<William.Blanchard_at_kohler.com> wrote:

        Wouldn't they need access to your network in order to access the listener? I know that you can set up a similar entry in a listener.ora and remotely access the listener (I did this to prove it) but I was behind the firewall. I tried from home but wasn't able to access the listener using the same technique.

        Another question is that in 9i you can't do a save_config and have to enter the password interactively in order to use the listener. So, after a cold backup and a server restart, someone would have to manually restart every listener.

        Has anyone figured out how to script this? We tried but weren't able to figure out how to script the password entry so that our startup scripts would work with a password protected listener.          

        William

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	From: Andrew Kerber [mailto:andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com] 
	Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 10:44 AM
	To: Blanchard William
	Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
	Subject: Re: lsnrctl passwords
	
	
	Several things they could do, for one they could turn off

logging when you need it. They could also turn on logging, fille up the drive that the log file is on, and stop your listener, they could shut down the listener so no one could connect. ALl of these could be accidental or on purpose, but a password makes it harder to do either way. Also, most Sarbanes-Oxley compliance checklists require it.         

        It is a pain to deal with even so.                  

        On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Blanchard William
<William.Blanchard_at_kohler.com> wrote:
        

                Is anyone out there using lsnrctl passwords? If so, why? I realize that there are vulnerabilities but if they're able to get at the network, why would they waste their time on the listner?                                                     

                William                  

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	Andrew W. Kerber
	
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