RE: Listner contorl with password

Bob,

Without wishing to teach grandma to suck eggs, why are you enabling password 
authentication on the Oracle 10G listener? You are probably aware that the 
Oracle recommendation is not to set a password from 10G onwards, as it is more 
secure without a password, and prevents remote access of the listener (Metalink 
Doc: 260986.1). I assume you have need for someone to remote control the 
listener without being able to login to the O/S?

regs

Neil Chandler

Subject: Listner contorl with password
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:30:04 -0500
From: RStorey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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While I’m digging through MySupport, I’ll toss
this out here.  I know I’m missing something simple

 

Using 10.2.0.5 on Windows 2008.  I created a test
database.  I then created a listener with a name other than listener,
using the Net Manager tool.  I set the password, and changed the default
listening port.

 

I installed the software and started the listener service
using the Local administrator.  Under this login, I can start/stop
listener using lsnrctl.  Works fine.

Security =  Password or Local OS authentication.

 

So, I log in  as a different user who has no Admin
privledges and is not in the ora-dba group.  I access lsnctl and try to do
listener functions. No dice. Get the error message about not authorized. 
A good thing.

 

Then, I issue the set_password command and set password to
the listener password. I can successfully stop the listener.

 

However, I cannot restart it. No amount of effort can get it
to restart.  I get TNS-12560 and TNS-00530 errors about protocol.

 

So, the question is, what am I missing.  I understand
that if I turn the Local OS Authentication off, the password operations should
work. But, why is it that I can set the password and stop the listener, but now
can’t set the password and start the listener.

 

Thanks

Bob

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