Have you considered secure application roles :) On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Ricardo Santos <saints.richard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > can connect to the database through other tools beside the application, > like TOAD, SQL*Plus, etc. > > For security reasons I would like to prevent these users to connect to the > database using any other program than the application itself > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info