Re: Any ideas for running CRON jobs under Security Requirements

  • From: Mohammad Rafiq <rafiq9857@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 10:22:51 -0400

Hemant,
Where did you find this requirement?
We are having more then 20 SOX compliant databases and running our
jobs as either SYSDBA on Windows and *nix as well but not seen any
objection from our internal or external auditors so far...

Regards
Rafiq

On 5/13/05, Hemant K Chitale <hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> How do you run CRON jobs  {Online Backups, DB Monitoring} on Database Ser=
vers
> when IT Security / SOX requirements state that
>   a) No userid-password pairs are to be kept in plain-text in any files
>   b) connect / as sysdba is not to be used
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> I can handle a) with CRON jobs running under the "oracle" account with
> "connect / as sysdba"
> at the beginning of SQL scripts.  I can handle b) if I hard code a
> userid/password with the
> appropriate privileges.  How do I handle both requirements ?
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> Hemant K Chitale
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