Re: Database user Oracle

  • From: Sanjay Mishra <smishra_97@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Igor Neyman <igor.neyman@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:25:01 -0800 (PST)

Igor

I checked it earlier but not able to find it in dbca as well as admin 
directories. 

Sanjay




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From: Igor Neyman <igor.neyman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: smishra_97@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>; Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx; 
"oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, November 12, 2009 1:25:32 PM
Subject: Re: Database user Oracle


Sanjay,

Any log files kept from db creation scripts?

Igor N.


On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Sanjay Mishra <smishra_97@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jared
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>Setting is False. Also I checked and found that user is created the same time 
>Database is created. Still trying as how it is created in few database and not 
>in all of them
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>Sanjay
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From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> 
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>To: smishra_97@xxxxxxxxx
>Cc: Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx; "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thu, November 12, 2009 12:30:14 PM
>Subject: Re: Database user Oracle
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>On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Sanjay Mishra <smishra_97@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>Yes it is correct as the DBs are mostly 10g and I check and found that select 
>>password from dba_users where username='ORACLE'
>>EXTERNAL
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>It comes to mind that you may want to check and see if remote authentication 
>is turned on:
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>select value from v$parameter
>where name = 'remote_os_authent'
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>If the answer to that query is true, you need to find out ASAP why this user 
>exists.
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>If remote_os_authent = true, then any user anywhere on your network could
>create a local oracle user on their PC and log on to the database without a 
>password.
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>That is assuming something other than windows.
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>It becomes a little more complicated on windows.
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>On windows the OSAUTH_PREFIX_DOMAIN registry entry would
>also need to be set to FALSE on the server for this to happen.
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>If not set, then the username on the database would need to be
>made up of the following values for remote authentication:
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>OS_AUTHENT_PREFIX: database parameter
>DOMAIN_NAME
>USERNAME
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>for example, OPS$ORACLE\SCOTT
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>that is assuming OS_AUTHENT_PREFIX is at the default value of "OPS$"
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>in your case it appears to be ""
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>IAC, you may want to review dba_audit_session to see just when
>this user has been logging on, and where from.
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>Sorry to go on so long about this, just been using it this week.
>
>Jared Still
>Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
>Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com/
>Home Page: http://jaredstill.com/
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