Stefan, Thanks. Here's the result in my environment--very puzzling. SQL> set instance hounddog Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options SQL> @conn "sys as sysdba" Enter password: Connected. SYS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> create or replace procedure do_insert 2 as 3 pragma autonomous_transaction; 4 begin 5 insert into t values (1); 6 commit; 7 end; 8 / Procedure created. SYS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> SYS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> create or replace trigger verify_client 2 after logon on database 3 begin 4 if (user='PB') then 5 do_insert; 6 raise_application_error(-20001,'Foo'); 7 end if; 8 end; 9 / Trigger created. SYS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> @conn pb/pb Connected. Ideas? Anyone? Or is it time to open an SR? Paul Baumgartel CREDIT SUISSE Information Technology DBA & Admin - NY, KIGA 1 11 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10010 USA Phone 212.538.1143 paul.baumgartel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.credit-suisse.com -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Knecht [mailto:knecht.stefan@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 4:11 AM To: paul.baumgartel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l Subject: Re: Restrict login for a particular user to be only from particular m achines Hi Paul, This works: sys@ORA9I> create table t (x int); Table created. sys@ORA9I> create or replace procedure do_insert 2 as 3 pragma autonomous_transaction; 4 begin 5 insert into t values (1); 6 commit; 7 end; 8 / Procedure created. sys@ORA9I> sys@ORA9I> create or replace trigger verify_user 2 after logon on database 3 begin 4 if (user='FOO') then 5 do_insert; 6 raise_application_error(-20001,'Foo'); 7 end if; 8 end; 9 / Trigger created. sys@ORA9I> @conn foo/bar ERROR: ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1 ORA-20001: Foo ORA-06512: at line 4 Warning: You are no longer connected to ORACLE. idle> Stefan On 9/13/06, Baumgartel, Paul < paul.baumgartel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:paul.baumgartel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: All, A client wants to be able to limit login for particular database user to be from a specified set of client machines. My understanding of login restriction at the listener level is that it is possible only to limit all database logins based on machine. I've been experimenting with login triggers that inspect sys_context('userenv','host'), but haven't figured out how to prevent the session from proceeding if the client machine name is not in the approved list. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions I'd be most grateful. Thanks, Paul Baumgartel CREDIT SUISSE Information Technology DBA & Admin - NY, KIGA 1 11 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10010 USA Phone 212.538.1143 paul.baumgartel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:paul.baumgartel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> www.credit-suisse.com <http://www.credit-suisse.com> ============================================================================== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: <http://www.credit-suisse.com/legal/en/disclaimer_email_ib.html> http://www.credit-suisse.com/legal/en/disclaimer_email_ib.html ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.credit-suisse.com/legal/en/disclaimer_email_ib.html ==============================================================================