How database passwords can tranmit via network...

From: nirav <shivam71_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2 Aug 2005 05:09:42 -0700
Message-ID: <1122984582.385836.250750@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

Hi Experts,

I am reading manuals and see following note:

"

It is strongly recommended that you configure Oracle to encrypt passwords in client/server and server/server connections. Otherwise, a malicious user "snooping" on the network can grab an unencrypted password, and use it to connect to the database as another user, thereby "impersonating" that user.
"

I do not know & want to know how this happens...Say I login as system using sqlplus from my pc to the server ..now how can someone get to know the password?(i mean what he needs to do to get the password?)

I want to know so that I can better watch out! Thanks

Nirav Received on Tue Aug 02 2005 - 07:09:42 CDT