Re: ACL issue

  • From: Sandra Becker <sbecker6925@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:36:05 -0700

Thanks everyone for your suggestions.  Turns out the change was made 4
months ago, but that particular feature wasn't used until the end of the
year so no one realized it was broken.

Sandy


On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Sandra Becker <sbecker6925@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Only one ACL disappeared.  One user's privilege was missing on another.
> None of our ACLs have expiration dates.  Good thought though.
>
> Sandy
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 7:01 AM, rjamya <rjamya@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Sandra
>>
>> Happy New Year 2014.
>>
>> I was just curious if those ACLs had expiry date associated for all of
>> them to be disabled en-mass.
>>
>> Raj
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Sandra Becker <sbecker6925@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>>  Oracle: 11gR2 EE
>>> OS:  SunOS 5.10 Generic_148888-01 (64 
>>> bit)<http://ptcgrid.ghx.com:4889/em/console/ecm/track/hc/view/osGeneral$target=pcntrcts.ghx.com$type=host?event=doLoad>
>>>
>>> Access control lists were set up in several production and
>>> non-production databases about 4 years ago.  Certain scheduled jobs use
>>> UTL_SMTP.  They have been working successfully since they were set up.
>>> This morning at 4:00am, two databases began failing when trying to email.
>>> The other 50+ databases continues working correctly.
>>>
>>> While troubleshooting the issue, I noticed that the privilege for the
>>> specific user was no longer there in the non-production database and the
>>> acl was missing from the production database.  I re-granted the privilege
>>> in the non-production database and the job completed successfully.  I had
>>> to re-create the acl, assign the host, and grant the privilege to the
>>> specific user in the production database and the jobs began executing
>>> successfully again.
>>>
>>> Questions:
>>> 1)  What would cause this behavior?  I have been the on-call DBA since
>>> Dec 25th and haven't even looked at these databases until I was paged this
>>> morning.
>>>
>>> 2)  Is this common?  Is this something we should be checking for?  I've
>>> been here only 4 months and the lead DBA isn't sure what might have been
>>> the root cause.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions are appreciated.  Thank you.
>>>
>>> Sandy
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sandy
>>> Transzap, Inc.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Sandy
> Transzap, Inc.
>



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Sandy
Transzap, Inc.

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