RE: Oracle client security

> How in the world did you find this?  Even after I see the answer, what =
> did you search on to find it?
Well, I already knew it was there.  :)

> 
> I'm also wondering exactly how this is pulled off.  I know a user can be 
=
> locked out of the registry.  But if the user fires up a DOS window, sets 
=
> the ORA_ENCRYPT_LOGIN environment variable to FALSE, and fires up some =
> client program from that DOS window, does that client program's Oracle =
> connection (assuming it's a self-standing 32-bit) revert to the =
> ORA_ENCRYPT_LOGIN env var as it sits in the registry or as it was =
> redefined in the DOS window?  For that matter, can a user even set an =
> env var if they are locked out of the registry?  I'm not sure how this =
> mechanism works (or was designed to work) in Winders.
> 

I haven't played with it, or if I have, I don't recall the results.

Jared


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