RE: Oracle osuser in v$session

More than likely the connections are for a web application where all the connections to Oracle use the same username. The application runs under root. To Oracle all the sessions appear as the same source/user.

Select username, osuser, machine from v$session order by use machine, osuser, username

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To: Oracle-L Freelists <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Subject: Oracle osuser in v$session

I had an environment where multiple tier applications using JDBC are connecting to the database. I am seeing OSUSER in v$session is coming out from lots of sessions as root or even ? and they are not background process sessions. Can someone help to provide some explanation?

TIA
Sanjay

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