Re: Alternatives to using utl_file

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:05:28 +0000
Message-ID: <7765c8970812160605k50a3d733g165aa630af638d58@mail.gmail.com>


still a security nightmare, but you could grant 'CREATE ANY DIRECTORY' to your application account and then create the directory object at runtime as well.

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:01 PM, John Dunn <JDunn_at_sefas.com> wrote:

> OK, thanks
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> The biggest issue I have with utl_file is needing to define utl_file_dir=
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> Since the directories we need to access are not known till run time we have
> to specify utl_file_dir=*, which is a security nightmare.
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> *John *
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