-----Original Message----- From: Barbara Baker [mailto:barb.baker@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 10:35 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Requirement to run as user SYS Thanks, Dick. I really appreciate your responses. It's a double-whammy. We got "written up" by the auditors for using the SYS account, so management's response is that we just disable it. < sigh . . . > [Mladen Gogala] How do you disable SYS account? Have you considered granting SYSDBA to PUBLIC? -- Mladen Gogala Ext. 121 -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l