RE: Funny sort of question re sys password
- From: "Igor Neyman" <ineyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:50:49 -0500
All this has nothing to do with Oracle security - it's OS security.
Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
ineyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Juan Cachito Reyes
Pacheco
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:32 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Funny sort of question re sys password
The principle of security says
if you have access to the server (the physical computer) you have
access to its data.
For example in
Oracle in NT, you drop the service and recreate it, this is the time it
takes to recreate the service
and restart the server.
In NT, to bypass NTFS there is a floppy disk (cia software) used to
restart
with it you can change server password, fix regedit, copy files, etc.
Other chance is install another nt installation that gives you acces to
everything.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nuno Souto" <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Oracle L" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 6:07 AM
Subject: Funny sort of question re sys password
> Someone at work maintains that it takes them 10 minutes to
> break the Oracle SYS password security.
>
> And the Sun boof-head (a different person and I use the
> term loosely...) assures me he's capable of doing so any time
> he wants.
>
> Now, I've been away from this security stuff for a year or so and
> I may well be wrong here, but breaking the password security
> means cracking the Oracle encryption. While this may be possible,
> I can't believe it only takes 10 minutes?
>
> Wouldn't it rather be a case of social engineering at work?
> Or just a plain vanilla "change_on_install" case?
>
> <says he who used to change it to "changed",
> with the obvious funny consequences>
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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